Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.
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| — | Howard Zinn (via mynameskatetoday) |
Her eyes were the color of faraway love.
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| — | Pablo Neruda, The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks (via seabois) |
In writing, sometimes the rules get in the way.
Verlyn Klinkenborg’s book of writing advice arrives this August.
Ardella
I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs.— Langston Hughes
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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| — | Oscar Wilde, The Critic as an Artist (via pavorst) |
