
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 12, “Marieville” (p. 184)
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
Letter Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prizefrom (2018)
Context: I am not hopeless nor have I lost my motivation. We cannot stop trying. I still hope and deeply believe that the tireless efforts of our civil society activists will eventually bear fruit. I am awaiting the moment I can rejoin my colleagues in these activities once I am released. The path to democracy in Iran lies not through violence, war, or military action by a foreign government, but through organizing and strengthening civil society institutions. The government knows this only too well. It is fearful of non-governmental civil society organizations precisely because of its undemocratic nature.
On the lack of ubiquity regarding Puerto Rican writings in “Luis Rafael Sánchez: Counterpoints" https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00096005/00024/14j (Sargasso, 1984)
Speech following the Minnesota primary (3 June 2008) http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/03/obama.speech/index.html
2008
“A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.”
“The more a person believes he’s free to think, the more I believe he’s a slave of his thoughts”