George Jackson Quotes
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions - these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We don't just need these systems to be technically better than the alternatives - we need them to be more user-friendly.
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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Chremylus: Wealth, the most excellent of all the gods. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.
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I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
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There's no privacy for the violently dead.
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Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
