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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Rukeyser, Muriel. "Kathe Kollwitz." The Speed of Darkness: Poems. Random House, 1968, sec. 3.

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You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 17.

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The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be any more.

John Berryman

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Berryman, John. His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968, poem no. 149.

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The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.

Pauline Kael

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Kael, Pauline. Quoted in "Pauline Kael Is Still At The Movies." Written by Jacob Siskind. The Montreal Gazette, 29 May 1968.

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To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory, conclusion.

Walter Cronkite

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Cronkite, Walter. "We are Mired in Stalemate." CBS Evening News, created by Don Hewitt, CBS News Productions, 27 Feb. 1968.

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I come into the peace of wild things
Who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. "The Peace of Wild Things." Openings. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

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Crime is a sociopolitical artifact, not a natural phenomenon. We can have as much or as little crime as we please, depending on what we choose to count as criminal.

Herbert L. Packer

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The Limits of the Criminal Sanction

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Packer, Herbert L. The Limits of the Criminal Sanction. Stanford University Press, 1968, conclusion.

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To be a slave was to be a human being under conditions in which that humanity was denied. They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was slavery.

Julius Lester

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To Be a Slave

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Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1968, ch. 1.

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Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste.

The Rolling Stones

Sympathy for the Devil

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Jagger, Mick and Keith Richards. "Sympathy for the Devil." Performed by The Rolling Stones. Beggars Banquet. Decca Records, 1968.

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I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Watchin' the tide roll away,
Ooh, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Wastin' time.

Otis Redding

(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

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Redding, Otis and Steve Cropper. "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." Performed by Otis Redding. The Dock of the Bay. Volt Records/Atco Records, 1968.

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How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.

Once Upon a Time in the West

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Once Upon a Time in the West. [C'era una volta il West]. Directed by Sergio Leone, Euro International Films/Paramount Pictures/Rafran Cinematografica/Finanzia San Marco, 1968.

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Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough.(2) Too much.

Ann Landers

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Landers, Ann. Ann Landers Says: Truth is Stranger. Prentice-Hall, 1968, ch. 2.

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I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Jim Morrison

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Morrison, Jim. Quoted in "Pop Music: Swimming to the Moon." Time Magazine, 24 Nov. 1967.

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We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times; we've had difficult times in the past; we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; it is not the end of disorder. But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings who abide in our land.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, Robert F. Remarks on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4 Apr. 1968, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

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The march of social progress is like a long and straggling parade, with the seers and prophets at its head and a smug minority bringing up the rear.

Pierre Berton

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Berton, Pierre. The Smug Minority. McLelland & Stewart, 1968.

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Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought that it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The New Yorker

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Singer, Isaac Bashevis. "The Cafeteria." The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 1968.

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I don't think you can really put a monetary value on a painting.

Jacob Lawrence

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Lawrence, Jacob. Interviewed by Carroll Greene. 26 Oct. 1968, New York City, NY, USA.

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