[Haramoobobi]

“‘In the woods, we return to reason and faith,’ and become ‘part and parcel of God’”. --Emerson

"No knowledge considers or prescribes for the advantage of the stronger, but for that of the weaker, which it rules"
--Plato (republic)

"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. "


"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. "
--Harper Lee, (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined."

"Men's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify..."
--God of small things

:The wealth of the nation, doled out carefully where children need free milk, is drained for billion-dollar aircraft carriers. . . The fear and anger of the majority [turned] toward a class of criminals bred - by economic inequality - faster than they can be put away, deflecting attention away from the huge theft of natural resources carried out within the law by men in executive offices. "
-- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the U.S.