In the words of those who have passed: 2016 by Egantx7

The following people are to be released from their captors: In Northern Ireland, the seven members of the New Provo Front. In Canada, the five imprisoned leaders of Liberte de Quebec. In Sri Lanka, the nine members of the Asian Dawn movement...

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom / For trying to change the system from within / I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them / First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

Tell Mike it was only business. I always liked him.

The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile of uncomfortable protective gear while his knees creak.

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I know nothing about dogs except that I love them.

Neither quote really identifies this person, but considered together, they will help.

My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me n!%%*r, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.

Exit question. On a political probability scale of zero to ten, zero meaning no likelihood whatsoever and ten meaning metaphysical certitude, what is the likelihood that the Democrats will win back a majority of independents by election day .... Pat?

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole / No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried / Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied / That leaves only me to blame 'cause Mama tried (edited at 7:18 am, November 27, 2016 (AWST))

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker.

I'm in pain and I'm wet and I'm still hysterical!

Dearly beloved / We are gathered here today / To get through this thing called life

Three days after the Waco standoff began, David Koresh promised the FBI that he and his followers would surrender immediately after a tape he had made was broadcast on the radio. The tape was broadcast. What did he do? He broke his word. He did not surrender.

Jan, I think you may need glasses.

I'm stepping through the door / And I'm floating in a most peculiar way / And the stars look very different today / For here / Am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do

What other people may find in poetry, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Ensign authorization code Nine Five Wiktor Wiktor Two ... May I have your attention please. At twenty two hundred hours telemetry detected an anomaly in ze Neutral Zone.