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"SOMETIMES I'LL SAY things for the sake of outrageousness, and they're not necessarily true, yet I enjoy saying them to shock people and make them be honest. But being honest can be a front, which is probably the most honest thing I can say."
--Margaret Cho, comedian, Girlfriends (Nov. 1999)

"YOU CAN'T HAVE an omelet without breaking eggs. The same is true in confronting evil. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi took some amazing risks, they had to go through a lot of suffering and hardship, there's no way out of that. The point is not to return to violence."
--Utah Phillips, musician, Hip Mama (#20)

"MY GENERATION is not about to produce a renaissance of the left. Our political critics are too enamored with pragmatic conservatism, and our social critics are too flippantly detached or too busy pining for the past. But this conclusion might be too pessimistic. Ironically, one source of hope might come from a simple and gloomy fact: Generation X is doing notoriously worse than baby boomers in terms of economic standing."
--Kevin Mattson, author, Dissent (Fall 1999)

"I HAVE FOUND that rituals and repetition resonate with and comfort people. But I am part of a religious tradition that also values variations: What a ritual communicates to people is more important than performing it in one specific way. These things that I do have been done by those before me and will continue to be done after I am gone, limiting my self-importance while at the same time connecting me with my community."
--Amy B. Gregory, minister, Ms. (Oct./Nov. 1999)

--Compiled by Erin Anderson, Laine Bergeson, and Sara Buckwitz

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