Wastelands Quotes

“Truth never damages a cause that is just. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. —Frederick Douglass”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. —Marcus Aurelius”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. —Navajo proverb”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it. —Theodore Roosevelt”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“mendacious,”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“And the Lord breathed into him the breath of life.’ If we are talking air, we are talking life.”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. —Aesop”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“One hundred and fifty years ago, it was a crime for people like them to read. White”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have power, your job is to empower somebody else. —Toni Morrison”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“There is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“When justice can be bought there is no justice. When government can be bought, there is no democracy. —Don Webb”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial