"They have exiled me now from their..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom
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“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men”
“Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.”
“It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”