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It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian. ↗

— James Iha

#bring #every #every second #fans #i

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #commitment #crucial #crucial role #experience

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#everywhere #i #i think #incomplete #nature

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#essential #extreme #extreme poverty #freedoms #humane

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#freedom #shoot #shout

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#being #committed #enriching #focus #genuine

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#am #basic #belief #brings #democracy

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #coexist #hiroshima #humanity #japan

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#global #humanity #know #men #men and women