Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981) American actor, director, producer, and writer
The New York Times, March 25, 2007.
As quoted in The Dialectical Imagination : A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research (1973) by M Jay, p. 279.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981) American actor, director, producer, and writer
The New York Times, March 25, 2007.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
They ask if our nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without first having spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence I cannot be silent.
1960s, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)
Richard J. Daley (1902–1976) American politician
[David Farber, Chicago '68, University of Chicago Press, 1994, ISBN 0226238016, pg 145(b)</small>, pg 249<small>(a)]
Stated one week following the April 1968 Chicago riots to the people of Chicago because of his dissatisfaction with the minimum use of force employed by Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk in dealing with rioters.
Dave Chappelle (1973) American comedian
Comedy specials, The Age of Spin: Dave Chappelle Live at the Hollywood Palladium (2017)
Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality
[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 9, Twofers, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]
John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
Then I will remind myself that I cannot.
March 16
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
“I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.”
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter
Rita Hayworth in Hallowell, John. "Rita Hayworth: Don't Put the Blame on Me, Boys." New York Times October 25, 1970, sec. 2, pp. 15, 38. (M).
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Variant: Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.