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“Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.”
― Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
― Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

“We are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor. I don’t think that is the nation we should be living in.”
― Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
― Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

“Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent — Live — live fully, live passionately, live disastrously if necessary. Live the gamut of human experiences, build, destroy, build up again! Live, let’s live, you and I — let’s live as none ever lived before, let’s explore and investigate, let’s tread fearlessly where even the most intrepid have faltered and held back!”
― Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921
― Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921

“She walks in the loveliness she made,
Between the apple-blossom and the water--
She walks among the patterned pied brocade,
Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter.”
― The Land
Between the apple-blossom and the water--
She walks among the patterned pied brocade,
Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter.”
― The Land

“A lawyer’s either a social engineer or he’s a parasite on society.”
― Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
― Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

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