I am alive in 21st Century America. I have a voice. Let it serve as a corrective to the violent and reckless power that stands against the force of love. ― Tracy K. Smith

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here? -Alexei Navalny

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The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. -Alexei Navalny

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Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem. Alexei Navalny

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? ― Ali Shaw

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Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

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I'm only sort of a politician. -Alexei Navalny

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

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