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“The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don't let your message be buried and don't bury yourself.”
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“The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.”
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“Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.”
Source : Benjamin R. Barber (2000). “A Passion for Democracy: American Essays”, p.221, Princeton University Press
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“I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.”
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“It is said that life and death are under the power of language.”
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“The Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement whose members cooperate with each other throughout the world, based on the same religious worldview - the spread of Islam, until it rules the world.”
Source : Interview with the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, an international Arab daily, December 11, 2005.
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“It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'”
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“Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism”
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“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.”
Source : Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.25, Hachette UK
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“Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?”
