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In the beginning there was my mother. A shape. A shape and a force, standing in the light. You could see her energy; it was visible in the air. Against any background she stood out.

Marilyn Krysl

You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system.

Mary Heaton Vorse

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.

John Keats

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

Helen Rowland

The old futures have a way of hanging around. . . . Everyone sort of knows that the real future is going to be cluttered with all the same junk we have today, except it will be old and beat up and there will be more of it.

William Gibson

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Lydia Maria Child