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"The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat."
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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green."
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"I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car."
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"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
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"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
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"The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence."
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"Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."
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"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."
Beauty
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
Violence
"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
Travel
"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
Injustice
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."
Poetry
"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."
Poetry
"The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat."
Car
"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair."
Family
"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."
Attitude
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