#mina

We can be anything we want to be in this life. And I’d like to be you. But there can’t be two of us, so I’m afraid you’ll have to be eliminated. You have become redundant. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#eliminated #kill #life #murder #redundancy

When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#conscience #conviction #demoral #determination #intrusion

There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#confusion #friend #illuminate #quotes #sky

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#irony #racial-discrimination #equality

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmental stewards than other peoples or parts of contemporary society] to justify fair treatment of native peoples, we imply that it would be OK to mistreat them if that assumption could be refuted. In fact, the case against mistreating them isn't based on any historical assumption about their environmental practices: it's based on a moral principle, namely, that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate or exterminate another people. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#dispossession #environment #equality #extermination #morality

Why can't everyone be treated equally? Forgotten of what they did wrong, but remember their rights? Why can't the whole world just get along? ↗

— Fei loves Meng

#life #world #equality

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#self-actualization #self-determination #self-fulfillment #life

The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure for our listlessness is to be out within the invigorating wind. The cure for our uselessness is to take back up our stewardship; for it is not that there has been no work to be done, we simply have not been attending to it. ↗

— L.M. Browning

#cure #faith #god #l-m-browning #meaning

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#determination #frankenstein #men #family

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#empowerment #feminism #freedom #gender #hypocrisy