“At the bottom of all of our terrified souls, we know, that democracy is a dying giant, a sick, sick, dying, decaying political concept, riling in it's final pain. I don't mean that the United States is finished as a world power. The United States is the richest, the most powerful, the most advanced…”— Paddy Chayefsky, Howard Beale, Peter Finch, imdb.com
“When we engage in dehumanizing rhetoric or promote dehumanizing images, we dimish our own humanity in the process.”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a t…”— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com
“A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz. Which is partly the point. Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity,…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com