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“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm X Speeches and Writings)
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“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X
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“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X
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“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X
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“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
― Malcolm X
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“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
― Malcolm X
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“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcolm X
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“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
― Malcolm X
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“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
― Malcolm X
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“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
― Malcolm X
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“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
― Malcolm X
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“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
― Malcolm X
tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism 421 likes like
“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
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“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
― Malcolm X
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“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ”
― Malcolm X
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“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
― Malcolm X
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“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”
― Malcolm X
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“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
― Malcolm X
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X
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“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”
― Malcolm X
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“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
― Malcolm X
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“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
― Malcolm X
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“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
tags: books, living, reading 178 likes like
“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”
― Malcolm X
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“لقد غيرت القراءة مجرى حياتي تغييراً جذرياً ولم أكن أهدف من ورائها الى كسب أية شهادات لتحسين مركزي وانما كنت اريد ان احيا فكريا.”
― Malcolm X
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“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
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“We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”
― Malcolm X
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“I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.”
― Malcolm X
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“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment”
― Malcolm X
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Anatole France
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Born 16 April 1844
Paris, France
Died 12 October 1924 (aged 80)
Tours, France
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Anatole France (pronounced: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault,[1] [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his literary achievements.
France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 Early years
2 Literary career
3 Private life
4 Reputation
5 Works
5.1 Poetry
5.2 Prose fiction
5.3 Memoirs
5.4 Plays
5.5 Historical biography
5.6 Literary criticism
5.7 Social criticism
6 Quotes
7 References
8 External links
Early years[edit]
The son of a bookseller, France spent most of his life around books. France was a bibliophile.[3] His father's bookstore, called the Librairie France, specialized in books and papers on the French Revolution and was frequented by many notable writers and scholars of the day.[1] Anatole France studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduation he helped his father by working in his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre. In 1876 he was appointed librarian for the French Senate.
Literary career[edit]
Anatole France began his career as a poet and a journalist. In 1869, Le Parnasse Contemporain published one of his poems, La Part de Madeleine. In 1875, he sat on the committee which was in charge of the third Parnasse Contemporain compilation. As a journalist, from 1867, he wrote many articles and notices. He became famous with the novel Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881). Its protagonist, skeptical old scholar Sylvester Bonnard, embodied France's own personality. The novel was praised for its elegant prose and won him a prize from the Académie française.
France's home, 5 Villa Said, 1894–1924
In La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque (1893) Anatole France ridiculed belief in the occult; and in Les Opinions de Jerome Coignard (1893), France captured the atmosphere of the fin de siècle. France was elected to the Académie française in 1896.
France took an important part in the Dreyfus Affair. He signed Émile Zola's manifesto supporting Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer who had been falsely convicted of espionage. France wrote about the affair in his 1901 novel Monsieur Bergeret.
France's later works include L'Île des Pingouins (1908) which satirizes human nature by depicting the transformation of penguins into humans – after the animals have been baptized by mistake by the nearsighted Abbot Mael. Les dieux ont soif (1912) is a novel, set in Paris during the French Revolution, about a true-believing follower of Robespierre and his contribution to the bloody events of the Reign of Terror of 1793–94. It is a wake-up call against political and ideological fanaticism and explores various other philosophical approaches to the events of the time. La Revolte des Anges (1914) is often considered France's most profound novel. It tells the story of Arcade, the guardian angel of Maurice d'Esparvieu. Arcade falls in love, joins the revolutionary movement of angels, and towards the end realizes that the overthrow of God is meaningless unless "in ourselves and in ourselves alone we attack and destroy Ialdabaoth."
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. He died in 1924 and is buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris.
On 31 May 1922, France's entire works were put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Prohibited Books Index) of the Roman Catholic Church.[4] He regarded this as a "distinction".[5] This Index was abolished in 1966.
Private life[edit]
In 1877, Anatole France married Valérie Guérin de Sauville, a granddaughter of Jean-Urbain Guérin a miniaturist who painted Louis XVI,[6] with whom he had a daughter, Suzanne, in 1881 (dec. 1918). France's relations with women were always turbulent, and in 1888 he began a relationship with Madame Arman de Caillavet, who conducted a celebrated literary salon of the Third Republic; the affair lasted until shortly before her death in 1910. [6] After his divorce in 1893, he had many liaisons, notably with Mme. Gagey, who committed suicide in 1911. France married again in 1920, Emma Laprévotte.[7]
Reputation[edit]
After his death in 1924 France was the object of written attacks, including a particularly venomous one from the Nazi collaborator, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, and detractors decided he was a vulgar and derivative writer. An admirer, the English writer George Orwell, defended him however and declared that he remained very readable, and that "it is unquestionable that he was attacked partly from political motives. The clerics and reactionaries hated him in just the same way as they hated Zola. [France] had lost no opportunity of poking fun at the Church. He was everything that the clerics and revanchists, the people who afterwards sucked the blacking off Hitler's boots, most detested." [8]
Works[edit]
Poetry[edit]
France caricatured by GUTH for Vanity Fair, 1909
Les Légions de Varus, poem published in 1867 in the Gazette rimée.
Poèmes dorés (1873)
Les Noces corinthiennes (The Bride of Corinth) (1876)
Prose fiction[edit]
Jocaste et Le Chat maigre (Jocasta and the Famished Cat) (1879)
Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard) (1881)
Les Désirs de Jean Servien (The Aspirations of Jean Servien) (1882)
Abeille (Honey-Bee) (1883)
Balthasar (1889)
Thaïs (1890)
L’Étui de nacre (Mother of Pearl) (1892)
La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque (At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque) (1892)
Les Opinions de Jérôme Coignard (The Opinions of Jerome Coignard) (1893)
Le Lys rouge (The Red Lily) (1894)
Le Puits de Sainte Claire (The Well of Saint Clare) (1895)
L’Histoire contemporaine (A Chronicle of Our Own Times)
1: L’Orme du mail (The Elm-Tree on the Mall)(1897)
2: Le Mannequin d'osier (The Wicker-Work Woman) (1897)
3: L’Anneau d'améthyste (The Amethyst Ring) (1899)
4: Monsieur Bergeret à Paris (Monsieur Bergeret in Paris) (1901)
Clio (1900)
Histoire comique (A Mummer's Tale) (1903)
Sur la pierre blanche (The White Stone) (1905)
L'Affaire Crainquebille (1901)
L’Île des Pingouins (Penguin Island) (1908)
Les Contes de Jacques Tournebroche (The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche) (1908)
Les Sept Femmes de Barbe bleue et autres contes merveilleux (The Seven Wives Of Bluebeard and Other Marvellous Tales) (1909)
Les dieux ont soif (The Gods Are Athirst) (1912)
La Révolte des anges (The Revolt of the Angels) (1914)
Memoirs[edit]
Le Livre de mon ami (My Friend's Book) (1885)
Pierre Nozière (1899)
Le Petit Pierre (Little Pierre) (1918)
La Vie en fleur (The Bloom of Life) (1922)
Plays[edit]
Au petit bonheur (1898)
Crainquebille (1903)
La Comédie de celui qui épousa une femme muette (The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife) (1908)
Le Mannequin d'osier (The Wicker Woman) (1928)
Historical biography[edit]
Vie de Jeanne d'Arc (The Life of Joan of Arc) (1908)
Literary criticism[edit]
Alfred de Vigny (1869)
Le Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (1888)
Le Génie Latin (1909)
Social criticism[edit]
Le Jardin d’Épicure (The Garden of Epicurus) (1895)
Opinions sociales (1902)
Le Parti noir (1904)
Vers les temps meilleurs (1906)
Sur la voie glorieuse (1915)
Trente ans de vie sociale, in four volumes, (1949, 1953, 1964, 1973)
Quotes[edit]
Anatole France c. 1921
"Some succeed because they are destined to; most succeed because they are determined to."
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread."
"If the path be beautiful, let us not question where it leads."
"The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious."
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe."
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."
"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."
"For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free."
"She fought him off vigorously, scratched, cried that she will die before she submits, but the chevalier paid no attention to her words and took her. Afterwards, she smiled coyly and told him: "Do not think, dear chevalier, that you won me against my will. Better thank our good preacher who reminded me that we are mortal, and a pleasure missed today is missed forever. Now we can proceed, for I missed too many pleasures while being too prudent for my own good." (Fable by Anatole France.)
"If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
"All religions breed crime." (Thaïs)
"The people who have no weaknesses are terrible: there is no way of taking advantage of them." (The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard)
"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
"Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not."
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
"We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote the whole book."
"One must learn to think well before learning to think; afterward it proves too difficult."
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."
"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it."
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ "Anatole France". benonsensical. 24 July 2010.
Jump up ^ Halsall, Paul (May l, 1998). "Modern History Sourcebook: Index librorum prohibitorum, 1557–1966 (Index of Prohibited Books)". Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Fordham University).
Jump up ^ Current Opinion, September 1922, p. 295.
^ Jump up to: a b Edouard Leduc (2004). Anatole France avant l'oubli. Editions Publibook. pp. 222–. ISBN 978-2-7483-0397-1. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
Jump up ^ Lahy-Hollebecque, M. (1924). Anatole France et la femme. Baudinière, 1924, 252 p.
Jump up ^ Orwell, Collected Works, I Have Tried to Tell the Truth, p.262
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Anatole France, Nobel Prize Winner by Herbert S. Gorman, The New York Times, 20 November 1921
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"Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
Exodus 22, King James Version
"Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men."
- Thomas Jefferson, Light and Liberty
"That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."
- J.S.Mill
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. "
- J F Kennedy. Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy - January 20th 1961
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Woodrow Wilson, address to Congress (April 2, 1917). (State of War with Germany).
"we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"
- Winston Churchill. Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
"The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!"
Josef Stalin - July 1941
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. "
- Charles Darwin
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness"
- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence 1776
"You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
- Winston Churchill. Speech in the House of Commons, after taking office as Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "
- Abraham Lincoln 1863 Gettysburg Address
" - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
- Abraham Lincoln 1863, Gettysburg Address
"Cogito ergo sum" ( I think, therefore I am)"
- Rene Descartes - part IV of Discourse on the Method
"I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands."
- Nelson Mandela. Speech on the day of his release, Cape Town (11 February 1990)
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."
- Abraham Lincoln 1858 - House Divided Speech
"The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition."
- Nelson Mandela
" Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free."
- Martin Luther King - 1963
"And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land"
- Martin Luther King - 1968 - "I've Been to the Mountain Top Speech
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
- Mahatma Gandhi "Interview to the Press" in Karachi about the execution of Bhagat Singh (26 March 1926);
"I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it."
- Woodrow Wilson League of Nations Address (25 September 1919)
"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF THE WORLD, UNITE!"
"A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism."
- Karl Marx, F.Engels, Communist Manifesto 1848
"The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy."
- President Mikhail Gorbachev Speech (July 1988)
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners. "
- Lenin
"What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns."
- Wilfred Owen, from Anthem for Doomed Youth
"In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth”.
- Siegfried Sassoon in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…"
- George Bernard Shaw The World (15 November 1893)
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."
- George Orwell, 1984
"Repeal the Missouri Compromise — repeal all compromises — repeal the Declaration of Independence — repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak."
- Abraham Lincoln 1854
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
- Abraham Lincoln 1865 Second Inaugural Address
"I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", and "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order. "
- President Mikhail Gorbachev Nobel Address 1991
"Why not?"
President Mikhail Gorbachev - When asked if he thought the Berlin Wall should be dismantled. (unsourced)
"Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions […]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West)."
— Günter Schabowski, November 9th, 1989 East Germany
“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.”
- J. Robert Oppenheimer quotes (American theoretical Physicist nicknamed the 'Father of the Atomic Bomb'. 1904-1967)
“This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you that no such understanding has been received and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.”
Neville Chamberlain - 3rd September 1939
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
- Barack Obama:
"A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom" - August 14th 1947.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw:
" Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
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