Dec. 25, 2016

That's What People Say!!!

by Leon Irby (author's profile)

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That's What People Say!

"Silence in the face of evil is evil itself!"
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

"I'd rather annoy people with my honesty and loud opinions than stay silent."
—Demi Lovato
Source: USMagazine.com/Feud of the Week Nicki (US) Demi May 23, 2016, p. 10

"'Do you really want to stir the pot?' I'll get asked. Once, I'd thought about it, actually I do."
—Chloe Grace Mortez, on being vocal about her opinion
Source: USMagazine.com/Loose talk August 22, 2016, p. 12

"The power of loving criticism: can't I criticize what I love?"
Those words from Toni Morrison's 1977 Pulitzer Prize wining novel, Song of Solomon.
Source: quoted by Michael Eric Dyson, scholar and author. As told to Jamilah Lemieux Ebony, April~May, 216, p. 86, Ebony. Com.

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