"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

Injustice, Deception, Capitalism, Life

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"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

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"From my keen observation, it is a very sad fact that the Philippines' current administration's drug war crisis has fully pressed the pedal of acceleration to more division, hatred, cycles of violence (copycat killings, summary killings, extra judicial killings, collateral victims of drug war), toxic revenge, and perpetual impunity."

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"Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary."

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"Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Marie felt a sudden urge to smash the glass, break down the door, pull down the building. She wanted to tear apart the world. Mather would have never treated a white student that badly, nor would he have shut the door in the face of a man. At that moment, she wanted Dr. Mather to disappear. She wanted every white man to disappear. She wanted to burn them all down to ash and feast on their smoke. Hateful, powerful thoughts. She wondered what those hateful, powerful thoughts could create."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"Police officers seem nice until they start targeting you for stops, give you a bogus speeding ticket and write fake police reports about their interactions with you."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

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"If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it."

David Horowitz, American Writer

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"Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

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"Many an injustice is presented as a solution and gift."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"The world is an enormous injustice."

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"Time is the only critic without ambition."

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"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."

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"It ain't kin we? It's will we?"

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"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"

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"Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that."

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"You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."

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"And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away."

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"Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone."

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