"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."

Justice, Flags, Writing

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"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."

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"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic."

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"Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite."

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"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."

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"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."

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"I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public."

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"The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy."

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"The American public does not know poets exist."

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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

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"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."

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"Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater."

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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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