We can only shine the brightest as SNSD when we stand on one stage as nine.
You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police & military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. . . Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political " ju-jitsu " and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.
As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.
Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.
Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish.
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties. . . . and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.
All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.