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“The United States has the highest level of child poverty of any industrial society, followed by the rest of the English-speaking world.”

— Noam Chomsky, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order

“The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase in social and economic inequality, a marked increase in severe deprivation for the poorest nations and peoples of the world, a disastrous global environment, an…”

— Noam Chomsky, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order

“Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly.”

— Noam Chomsky, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”

— Noam Chomsky, Chomsky on the Environment, Corporate Propaganda and Externalities

“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”

— Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

“There are, by one count, 20,000 more public relations agents working to doctor the news today than there are journalists writing it.”

— Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”

— Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”

— Noam Chomsky, Interview with Noam Chomsky (September 14, 1993)

“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”

— Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“It is better to have a heart which is larger than life and ask life to expand, than to try to cage the only thing worth living for. Be proud in all that you love. Love fiercely, but remember the things that are worthy of your heart. It is a precious gift, and the larger its size, it seems, the easie…”

— Becca Allen, To The Girls Whose Hearts Are Too Big For This World.

“You’ve given your heart many times, and I know it’s tired. You’re tired. But you should know that one day, someone is going to love you back so hard, exactly the way you love, and you’ll forget about all this pain you’re feeling now.”

— Lux Montagne, This Is For The Girl Who Feels Everything

“You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.”

— Nikita Gill, You Are A Daughter Of The Sun

“All she wanted was to find a place to stretch her bones. A place to lengthen her smiles and spread her hair, a place where her legs could walk without cutting and bruising, a place unchained. She was born out of ocean breath. I reminded her; ‘Stop pouring so much of yourself into hearts that have no…”

— Tapiwa Mugabe, tapiwa mugabe

“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”

— Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark)

“Don't you dare shrink yourself for someone else's comfort — do not become small for people who refuse to grow.”

— Marina V, Don’t you dare<br/> Shrink yourself <br/> For someone else’s comfort -<br/> Do not become small<br/> For people who refuse to grow.

“I pray you find someone who loves you unconditionally, someone who is eternally grateful for having you. Someone who values you even in your darkest.”

— Bogart Lee, Being Difficult To Love Doesn’t Make You A Failure, It Makes You Human

“You do not need to change yourself, for boys who fell in love with a beautiful, wild thing that they are too ill equipped and must cage to ‘handle’. You do not make yourself less when you are a comet filled with such power and intensity, that you are waiting to blaze across this universe. You are un…”

— Nikita Gill, You Are A Frighteningly Beautiful Wild Thing

“You are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you fill h…”

— Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark)

“I hope that you do not let the world condemn you for being too loud, too expressive, too soft; that you do not let it convince you to be perfect instead of real. I truly hope that you celebrate the fact that you are not for everyone, that you are not impressing the kinds of people who were built on…”

— Bianca Sparacino, You Are Not For Everyone