Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: NOS4A2
Living in Your Letter
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: NOS4A2
David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Commonly misquoted as "I can smell the uranium on your breath", as in A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.
During the Oxford Union Debate, 1 March 1985.
Source: http://publicaddress.net/default,1578.sm#post
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
“I'm like the legs of a paraplegic really? Cuz I'm still part of you even if you cant feel me.”
Immortal Technique (1978) American rapper and activist
"Death March:
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)
Bismillah Khan (1916–2006) Indian musician
He said ‘play my son’ but I was sweating. I stopped playing.
Khan used to do riyaz (practice) before the temple of Balaji as advised by his mamu (maternal uncle) who had also told him not talk to any body about anything that might happen. But when he told his mamu about his seeing Balaji, mamu was annoyed and slapped him.
Quote, Power Profiles
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist