Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works. )
Control healthcare and you control the people
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.
I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.
I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.
You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth. 'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it. '