"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."

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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated."

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"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime."

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"Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty."

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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."

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"I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities."

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"Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer."

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"But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life."

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"You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now."

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"First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons."

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"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

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