How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers. _ Martin Firrell

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

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Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. - Diane Nash

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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. — Angela Davis

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Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

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Freedom lies in being bold. ― Robert Frost

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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde

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