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Act my age? What the fuck is that, “act my age”? What do I care how old I am? The Ocean is old as fuck. It will still drown your ass with vigor.
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I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people.
Bob Ross (via themilkywhiteway)
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People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
Neil Gaiman (via hellanne)
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James Baldwin | Fifth Avenue, Uptown (1960)
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In 1968, during the administration of US President Lyndon B. Johnson, Eartha Kitt encountered a substantial professional setback after she made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon. Kitt was invited to the White House luncheon and was asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War. She replied: “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.”
During a question and answer session, Kitt stated:
The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons — and I know what it’s like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson — we raise children and send them to war.
Her remarks reportedly caused Mrs. Johnson to burst into tears and led to a derailment in Kitt’s career
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I decided to become a human rights activist when I realized how easy it was for officials to make a decision and force women to be examined in the most intimate parts of their bodies. Russian officials should not stay unpunished, they cannot have this kind of absolute power over us.
Maria Alyokhina, one of the recently freed Pussy Riot members on her prison sentence, including forced gynecological examinations almost every day for three weeks.
Alyokhina & bandmate Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were freed from prison after nearly two years for singing a song about Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral. The two were released as part of an amnesty initiated by Putin and backed by the Russian parliament last week, which is timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Russian constitution. The women qualify because they have young children.
Alyokhina told Russian television that had she been given the chance, she would have turned down the offer of amnesty, and served out the remainder of her sentence, which was due to finish in March.
(via thepeoplesrecord)
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Belgium Firefighters Clash with Police Protesting Against Paycuts in Brussels
13/Dec/2013 Around 1000 Belgium firefighters gathered in Brussels to protest against paycuts and other social restrictions. Firefighters clashed with police when they forced through the police blockade, entered the “neutral zone” and protested in front of Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo’s office.
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"They Do Not Exist" (1974) a Palestinian film by Mustafa Abu ali http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZ_7Z6vbsg
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Afghan children go to class in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Jalalabad. Photo by Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images
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Akala ft. Lowkey - Behind My Painted Smile (Live )
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