WordsOfWisdom

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“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

- Langston Hughes

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“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.”

- Ray Bradbury

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As long as the music is loud enough, we won’t hear the world falling apart.

-unknown

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I rebel, therefore, I exist.

- Albert Camus

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This isn't what I usually post, but something has to be said.

On Monday in Minneapolis, a black man by the name of George Floyd was killed by the police. The police said "he was resisting arrest" when he was doing absolutely nothing. One of the officers was recorded kneeling on the back of his neck. Pedestrians were heard telling the officer to stop because he wasn't resisting. In the video you can also hear George Floyd telling the officer that he couldn't breathe. When he became unresponsive the officer didn't help. When the ambulance came they took him to the hospital and he was pronounced dead hours later.

This is NOT what should be happening in 2020. We have made a lot of progress in history, but this is still happening. This needs to stop. We need to come together as a country or better yet, as a world. We need to stop this violence. Many people think racism is gone but this proves that it isn't even close. People should not be scared to go to the store or go on a run. I do believe that there are good police officers out there, but these acts of violence that keep happening make me doubt it.

We need to do something now before another person dies!

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"Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love."

- William Shakespeare

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"You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle."

- Julian Seifter

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"It is not down in any map; true places never are."

- Herman Melville

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"I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body."

- Dele Olanubi

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"Everyday I discover that I love you even more, and in this infinite universe I will love you to the ends."

- Alicia N. Green

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"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

- Judy Garland

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"In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are."

- Kristen Hannah

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"Two things I'll forever be sure of, the sun will always fall for the moon, & I will always fall for you."

- R. M. Broderick

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"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."

- Lord Byron

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"Love is my religion. I could die for that. I could die for you."

- John Keats

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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or You, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep, your eyes close."

- Pablo Neruda

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"I would rather share one lifetime with you then face all the ages of this world alone."

- J. R. R. Tolkien