“Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”

— Nikki Giovanni

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American writer and academic 1943

Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) English fiction writer

Source: The Scent of Water

“We speak Spanish but we think American. We don't want to be a colony, we don't want to be inferior. We want to be equal.”

Luis A. Ferré (1904–2003) American politician

On Puerto Ricans and their relationship with the United States, in a 1999 WOSO radio station interview in Puerto Rico, as quoted by the Associated Press http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2003/Ex-Puerto-Rican-Governor-Ferre-Dies-at-99/id-8cb93046108ad2da5ed0958cda645bfb

“We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.”

Sogyal Rinpoche (1947–2019) Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition

“We can't say to people 'Labour wants you to share in the running of your workplace, your community and your environment, but we don't trust you to have the final say over Brexit.'”

John McDonnell (1951) British politician (born 1951)

Source: Labour Party conference: McDonnell promises 32-hour working week https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49798357 BBC News (23 September 2019)

“I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“We are Germany 1930. And if people don't speak out, you have no choice of changing course later. You can deny it all you want, but the socialist revolution is here.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

2014-01-28
The Glenn Beck Program
Radio, quoted in * 2014-01-28
Beck: Criticism Of Tom Perkins Proves 'The Socialist Revolution Is Here'
Kyle
Mantyla
RightWingWatch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-criticism-tom-perkins-proves-socialist-revolution-here
2014-02-05
regarding criticism of billionaire Tom Perkins for comparing the Occupy Movement to Nazi Germany his letter to the editor, * 2014-01-24
Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579316913982034286
2010s, 2014

“There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems

“Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.”

James Clavell book Shōgun

Source: Shōgun

“When assessing the responsibility for this war—we have to confess honestly that we bear a share of the guilt. If I said this thought oppresses me, I would say too little—this thought never leaves me. I live in it.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Remarks to Theodor Wolff (5 February 1915), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 76

“Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”

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