Steven Biko (Bantu Stephen Biko) Quotes
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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One with the law is a majority.
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
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Children are all foreigners.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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We definitely have a majority in the Senate for McCain-Feingold, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
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You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
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The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.
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My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound to recognize another person's declared or enacted sense of sex and/or gender. We do not have to agree upon the "origins" of that sense of self to agree that it is ethically obligatory to support and recognize sexed and gendered modes of being that are crucial to a person's well-being.
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This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
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Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
