Category Archives: Quotable Notables

Quotable: Ciro Bustos on exile

“Exile means leaving your native land. What you lose are not your possessions, or external trappings. You lose what is under your feet: the land, the landscape that nourishes you. That is why the drama of exile affects everybody, no … Continue reading

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Quotable: Martin Luther King on law-breaking

Bad laws exist to be broken. And convicting whistleblowers of “espionage”, without proof that they were spying FOR someone, is all the more proof that the law is an ass.

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Quotable: Toni Morrison on rape

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Quotable: Ann Richards on woman blaming

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Quotable: Henry Rollins on rebellion

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Quotable: Aldous Huxley on propaganda

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Quotable: John Lennon on honesty

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Quotable: Arundhati Roy on war and peace

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Quotable: Margaret Atwood on women writers

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Quotable: Noam Chomsky on student debt

And, being a professor, he would know; he has seen all that with his own eyes.

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