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#1361984 --- 08/31/12 11:44 PM
Re: Quotable quotes
[Re: twocats]
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Ta!
“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, Ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.”
–Henry Rollins, “Punk Rock World Traveler,”
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"Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger." -John Trudell
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#1363578 --- 09/13/12 04:29 AM
Re: Quotable quotes
[Re: VM Smith]
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"If you object to unfair treatment, you're an ingrate. If you seek equity and fair consideration, you're uppity. If you demand union security, you're un-American. If you rebel against repressive management tactics, they will lynch and scalp you. But if you are passive and patient, they will take advantage of both."
— Congressman William Clay, Sr., speaking to the AFL-CIO Federation of Government Employees, 1975
Ruins of striking mine workers' tent city following the 1914 Ludlow Massacre. A militia formed by mining companies, wearing National Guard uniforms with the blessing of the Governor, riddled the tent city with machine gun fire before burning it to the ground. 19 were killed, including 2 women and 11 children, some as young as 3 months old. Almost 200 would be killed in the ensuing Colorado Coalfield Wars. The miners did not achieve their objectives (not immediately, at least) and the only man ever charged in connection with the Ludlow Massacre was union organizer John Lawson, who was framed for murder. Lawson's conviction was eventually overturned.
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"Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger." -John Trudell
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