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“We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.”
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Maureen Duffy
#Smart Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Blind Quotes
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“All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.”
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Maureen Duffy
#People Quotes
#Labels Quotes
#Patterns Quotes
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“I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.”
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Maureen Duffy
#Thinking Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.”
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Maureen Duffy
#Morning Quotes
#Knowledge Quotes
#Humility Quotes
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“Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much, and perhaps more, you diminish, you mutilate the whole.”
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Maureen Duffy
#Simple Quotes
#Feet Quotes
#Trying Quotes
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“In all dying our ages are the same.”
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Maureen Duffy
Source : Maureen Duffy (1985). “Collected Poems”, Hamish Hamilton
#Dying Quotes
#Age Quotes
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“all deaths are one's own.”
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Maureen Duffy
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“How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?”
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Maureen Duffy
#Men Quotes
#White Quotes
#Black Quotes
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“Love is the only effective counter to death.”
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Maureen Duffy
#Happiness Quotes
#Love Is Quotes
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“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.”
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Maureen Duffy
Source : Maureen Duffy (1969). “Wounds”
#Love Quotes
#Pain Quotes
#Alive Quotes
