Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“I have to teach myself to do nothing. In the last phase of a man's life, according to the Hindu tradition, you're meant to be a forest dweller.”
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Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) German visual artist
Source: 1970's, Interview with Louwrien Wijers, 1979, p. 249; Also cited in: Louwrien Wijers (1996). Writing as Sculpture: 1978 - 1987. p. 40
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) Indian independence activist
His opposition to teaching women in English.[Pati, Biswamoy, Bal Gangadhar Tilak: Popular Readings, http://books.google.com/books?id=U4TWzCkjrm4C, 2011, Primus Books, 978-93-80607-18-4, 16]
“I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.”
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
The Letters of Samuel Becket 1929–1940 (2009), p. 209
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
The Marshall Plan Speech (1947)
Context: There is a phase of this matter which is both interesting and serious. The farmer has always produced the foodstuffs to exchange with the city dweller for the other necessities of life. This division of labor is the basis of modern civilization. At the present time it is threatened with breakdown. The town and city industries are not producing adequate goods to exchange with the food-producing farmer. Raw materials and fuel are in short supply. Machinery is lacking or worn out. The farmer or the peasant cannot find the goods for sale which he desires to purchase. So the sale of his farm produce for money which he cannot use seems to him an unprofitable transaction. He, therefore, has withdrawn many fields from crop cultivation and is using them for grazing. He feeds more grain to stock and finds for himself and his family an ample supply of food, however short he may be on clothing and the other ordinary gadgets of civilization. Meanwhile, people in the cities are short of food and fuel, and in some places approaching the starvation levels. So the governments are forced to use their foreign money and credits to procure these necessities abroad. This process exhausts funds which are urgently needed for reconstruction. Thus a very serious situation is rapidly developing which bodes no good for the world.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Harijan (27 October 1946) p. 369
1940s
“You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that… you're nothing. ”
Аарон Руссо (1943–2007) film producer
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author
Personal correspondence (1839), as quoted in Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (1971) by Konstantin Mochulski, as translated by Michael A. Minihan, p. 17
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