George Orwell: That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4995

Babatunde Olatunji: Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4996

Sandra Carey: Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4997

Mark Twain: There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4998

Federico Garcia Lorca: In the fields where shadows grow tall, voices rise, answering the call. For the dreamers, the lost, the brave, we sing for freedom, our hearts enslaved. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4999

Federico Garcia Lorca: We don’t just live off bread. If I were hungry and helpless out on the streets, I wouldn’t ask for a loaf of bread. Instead, I’d ask for half a loaf and a book (…) All people should eat, but all should learn (…) because otherwise, they’ll be turned into machines. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5000

Federico Garcia Lorca: Culture because only through it can be solved the problems in which the people are debated today full of faith, but lacking light. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5001

Federico Garcia Lorca: The most terrible of feelings is the feeling of having lost hope. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5002

Suetonius: Caesar overtook his advanced guard at the river Rubicon, which formed the frontier between Gaul and Italy. Well aware how critical a decision confronted him, he turned to his staff, remarking: "We may still draw back but, once across that little bridge, we shall have to fight it out. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5003