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“Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.”

“Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.”

Vision Evidence Mere Satisfying Mundane

Book:Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays

“Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.”

Children Doe Loses Vision Clear Evidence Discovery Adults Scientist Prejudice Strive Senses Observation Preconceptions Scientific Discovery Candid Aberration

Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

“Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.”

“I believe that the evidence will show that there was not so much a conspiracy, but a convergence of interests with three different groups that had an interest in eliminating [Malcolm X] voice and his vision.”

Believe Different Shows Three I Believe Voice Interest Vision Groups Evidence Conspiracy Eliminating Convergence

Author:Manning Marable

“What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've turned a corner as filmmakers of color and that we're moving forward in our confidence and in the film industry not being afraid of our telling these stories and in giving us the opportunity to bring our vision to the screen.”

Giving Film Moving Opportunity Vision Evidence Slavery Moving Forward Filmmaker Emerging Being Afraid

Author:Amma Asante

“Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'”

People Knows Mean Today Process Vision Future Evidence Structure Despite Right Thing Sustainability Doing The Right Thing Sustainable Development Deviance Uncooperative

Author:Sara Parkin