Doug's Quote Page
Some of my favorite Quotations!
Civil Rights
Music
'"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mohandas Gandhi
"I just go where the guitar takes me."
-Angus Young
"Peace is its own reward."
-Mohandas Gandhi
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."
-Frank Zappa
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
-Mohandas Gandhi
"I played the recorder briefly in grade school, it was a little too light weight of an instrument for me."
-Slash
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Spirituality
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions."
-Edgar Cayce
"It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds."
-Edgar Cayce
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
-Martin Luther King, Jr
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Books and Authors
'I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense.'
- Ray Bradbury -
Fahrenheit 451
"I won't be taken Eliza; I'll diefirst! I'll be free or I'll die!" George Harris tells his wife and shows how passionate he is about freedom. 
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried." 
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William Shakespeare
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed,if all records told the same tale,then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
-George Orwell -1984
Nettie: "Not being tied to what God looks like, frees us" acknowledging that she too believes in this universal kind of God
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Alice Walker -The Color Purple
"War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war" p.922
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Leo Tolstoy -War and Peace
Politics
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
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Jimmy Carter
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Aristotle
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