Vusi Mahlasela quotes

“The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.”
-- Vusi Mahlasela

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“If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.”
-- Vusi Mahlasela

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“You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.”

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”

“That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.”

“We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.”

Source : "NYC Police Investigating Shooting Death by Police of Groom on His Wedding Day". www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2006.

“If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

“In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.”

“I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.”

Source : "10 best and worst lines from Drake’s new ‘All Me’ feat. Big Sean and 2 Chainz" by Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. August 01, 2013.

“Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”

Source : Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.238, Spectra