“Moving stranger,
Does it really matter,
As long as you're not afraid to feel?”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“When history moves — really moves — it does so in great convulsive jolts.”
Source: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 1, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, p. 13
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