“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”

— Arundhati Roy

From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf. <br class="br">Speeches <br class="br">Source: The Cost of Living

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