Arthur Schopenhauer (via philosophy-quotes):
4:43 Feb 20th, 2012 | 26 notesAll truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Thomas Sankara
Like Patrice Lumumba – an earlier principled political leader who was a violent casualty of the cold war – Sankara proved to be a creative and unconventional politician. separate from the interests of the major powers (in his case, France, the Soviet Union and the United States).He outlawed tribute payments and obligatory labour to village chiefs, abolished rural poll taxes, promoted gender equality in a very male-dominated society (including outlawing female circumcision and polygamy), instituted a massive immunisation programme, built railways and kick-started public housing construction.
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(via fyeahblackhistory)
: 1:23 Feb 19th, 2012 | 54 notesYou cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
and sometimes,
1:21 Feb 19th, 2012 | 0 notes
I watch your videos, and I drown in your words,
lips that sound poetry,
…a mind 4,000 miles away from me.
