Dartwill Aquila Week – Day 2

Dartwill Aquila Week, 7 quotes a day for 7 days
Day 2 – Dedicated to Thomas Sankarea (1949 – 1987), President of Burkina Faso who was murdered because he had the audacity to radically improve the lives of his people.

The list of people who were murdered
for improving the lives of people
is quite long.
The list of people who were killed
for destroying the lives of people
is considerably shorter.

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Trust in authority can damage your species.

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If we don’t pull the people below us up to our level,
they will drag us down to theirs.

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They’re willing to crash and trash humanity
to stash more cash in their pockets of plenty.

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Giving someone what they deserve is often revenge.
Giving them what they need is mercy.

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They steal from the poor in the name of economy,
rape justice in the name of necessity,
imprison freedom in the name of security,
and demand approval in the name of democracy.

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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.