It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution, " the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a man on the edge of a crowd looks back defiantly at a policeman – and when that policeman senses a sudden refusal to accept his defining gaze – as the imperceptible moment in which rebellion is born. "All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people, " Kapuscinski writes. "They should begin with a psychological chapter – one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly breaks his terror, stops being afraid. This unusual process – sometimes accomplished in an instant, like a shock – demands to be illustrated. Man gets rid of fear and feel free. Without that, there would be no revolution. . Gloria Steinem
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  2. Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. - Bob Marley
  3. Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
  4. Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
  5. The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't... - Jim Morrison
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  1. Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
  2. Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
  3. Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
  4. Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
  5. No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin–because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid...
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