"Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future."
-Fela Kuti
📷: Janet Griffiths
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"No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work." ~ Barack Obama
"The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children." ~ Joyce Banda
"The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character." ~ Helen Keller
“I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything… that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.” ~ Tracee Ellis Ross
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." ~ Jimi Hendrix
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
"I will not allow anyone to walk in my mind with dirty feet." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
"“苻宏这个人吧，确实没多大的野心；但有些仇如何报，他还是很清楚的。于是，当他发兵的时候，他人还未到洛阳，已让人给姚兴送去了一份礼物。这份礼物成功让姚兴掀了桌子，因为……它是一条铁制裤衩。意思很明显：你爹为了驱我爹的好鬼魂，被兵器扎中了下半身，创伤感染去世了，我先送你一条铁裤衩，你总不会这麽稀里糊涂地死了？”"
— 千里江风: 天幕剧透我谋朝篡位, p. 41
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"Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris." ~ George Ayittey
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” ~ Nelson Mandela
"We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings." ~ John Trudell
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ~ Alice Walker
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.” — Unknown
"We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings." ~ Pema Chodron
"There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust." ~ Elsa Triolet
"时间在户外有一种奇异的面貌。在太阳之下，时间好像是静止的。只有当每一分钟都是一种对身体的折磨时，你才会发现原来一个小时里真的有六十分钟，而且下一个小时并不比这个小时更接近黄昏。受钟表支配的室内工作者们从来没有跟时间正面交锋过。他们的秒针在打字机的“哒哒”声中走得飞快。当打字机静下来时，他们的一天也结束了。我们这些在户外工作的人，每天都在跟永恒作斗争，其间只有我们的手是忙碌的；我们的头脑在日出和日落之间可能已经变老又再度年轻；未来可能在一个小时中被重写，乌鸫的一首歌还没唱完，希望可能就被杀死又重生过了。我们确切地知道一天有多长。在几个月漫长的煎熬后，我们因为许多的沉默和许多的惊奇而苍老困惑，回到坐在办公室的朋友身边时却发现他们完全没有变化，只一脸单纯地从时间的表面滑过。"
— Stella Benson: 独居, pp. 127-128
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"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition." ~ Victoria Woodhull
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." ~ Benjamin Franklin
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"A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know." ~ John Legend
🔥 Consent-based quoting has arrived in Bonfire!
The latest Bonfire Social release implements Mastodon's FEP-044f, enabling you to:
✨ Use boundaries to define who can quote your post, who must request first, or who cannot request at all.
✨ Quote — or request consent to quote — someone else’s post.
✨ Give or withdraw consent at any time.
A first step toward making quoting work smoothly and respectfully across the fediverse.
Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/
