“Remember when your high school history teacher said that the course of human events changes ‘cause of the deeds of great men? Well, the bitch was lying. Fuck Caesar, fuck Lincoln, fuck Mahatma Gandhi. The world keeps moving cause of you and me, the anonymous. Revolutions get going cause there ain’t enough bread. Wars happen over a game of checkers.”
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“Now, I’m not saying the men in Oz are innocent. I am saying that they are not here because of the crimes they have committed, but the color of their skin. Their lack of education. The fact that they are poor! You see, this riot is not about getting smoking back, conjugal rights - it’s not even about life in prison. It’s about society taking responsibility. It’s about the whole horrid judicial system! We don’t need more prisons, bigger prisons, better prisons. We need better justice.”

Oz, episode 1.08, A Game of Chess.

(Source: randomwindstorm)