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My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.


Anne Stevenson


#because #confusion #contrary #earlier #enjoys

My surname for a mask to pretend! I have no stand to protest, but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana Naturova at Time's End' in the collection 'The Green Divorce')


Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis


#humanity #nature #nature

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.


Elie Wiesel


#injustice #may #must #never #powerless

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.


Mae West


#every man #figure #i #man #me

Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends." "That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.


Richelle Mead


#overprotective-fathers #rose-hathaway #true

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.


Maya Angelou


#comfort #home #protection #safety #security

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.


Ernest Hemingway


#days #die #dog #dying #fitting

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.


Martin Luther King Jr.


#civil-disobedience #dissent #protest #law

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.


Howard Zinn


#civil-disobedience #democracy #dissent #law #protest

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." (1962)


John F. Kennedy


#political-rights #protest #revolution #violence #violence






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