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# Texas Department of Criminal Justice

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails, and private correctional facilities.

## Quotes

* Every prisoner confined in Texas is forced to work without pay. ... Only those very few with documented serious medical or mental health conditions which impair work performance, and those held in the TDCJ’s torturous segregation units, are not made to work. Often those with documented medical and mental health exemptions are still forced to work – their exemptions being simply ignored. Those who refuse to work are punished, thrown in segregated confinement, and their imprisonment is typically extended.
** Kevin Rashid Johnson "Razor Wire Plantations: Amerika’s Ongoing Addiction to Slavery, Cruelty and Genocide," Turning the Tide, vol. 27, no. 1 (2014)
* TDCJ prisoners still do everything from growing all the food we eat (and which the TDCJ also sells commercially for profit), raising livestock and crops on hundreds of thousands of acres of TDCJ-owned farmland (which are aptly called “colonies”), to building and maintaining the prisons that hold us. The prisoners plant, tend and harvest everything from cotton, beans, carrots and potatoes, to peanuts and more. This work is performed by “hoe squads” of prisoners using primitive manual labor methods like those of the field slaves of yesterday or Third World peasants, while armed guards on horseback “oversee” them. The prisoners, like the old slaves, refer to these overseers as “bossman”. To see one of these teams at work is to witness a scene like something ripped from an old slave movie.
** Kevin Rashid Johnson "Razor Wire Plantations: Amerika’s Ongoing Addiction to Slavery, Cruelty and Genocide," Turning the Tide, vol. 27, no. 1 (2014)
# Text

In literary theory, a text is any object that can be read, a work of literature, a street sign, an arrangement of buildings on a city block, or styles of clothing. It is a coherent set of signs that transmits some kind of informative message. This set of symbols is considered in terms of the informative message's content, rather than in terms of its physical form or medium in which it is represented.

## Quotes

* The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary.
** Ralph Waldo Emerson, “History,” Essays: First Series, Complete Works (1883), p. 13
* Experience of the world may be looked upon as a kind of text, to which reflection and knowledge form the commentary. Where there is great deal of reflection and intellectual knowledge, and very little experience, the result is like those books which have on each page two lines of text to forty lines of commentary. A great deal of experience with little reflection and scant knowledge gives us books ... where there are no notes and much that is unintelligible.
** Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, T. Saunders, trans., § 8

## See also

* Book
* Language
# Texe Marrs

Texe Marrs (born 1944) is an American Texan preacher and conspiracy theorist.

## Quotes

* "As the above report and photos … indicate, foreign troops are now permanently stationed in our country... We must steel ourself [sic] for what may soon come. The dark clouds surely are gathering. We may not have much more time." (January 1997).
* "Even our children are being stealthily indoctrinated into the new faith... The Mattel Toy Co. has introduced its new 'Goddess of the Sun' Barbie doll. Is this the Whore of Babylon spirit, alive and with us today?" (March 1997).
* "Yes, you and I will continue to pay taxes for the maintenance and upkeep of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But we no longer own it. Now, the UN has ultimate jurisdiction".
* "The UN and its elitist masters don't want you on their property! And in case you do "trespass" and enter forbidden areas of these pristine UN lands, you might just be shot. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents and park personnel are now taught to love nature's Mother Earth and to despise and loathe human beings. They are being given firearms and instructed to use them. Meanwhile, foreign immigrants from India, China, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Russia and other nations are being recruited for this national park service police duty because, unlike U.S. nationals, non-English speaking foreigners will not hesitate to carry out orders and shoot American citizen "intruders"." (June 1997).
* "Is the NIV the Feminist Bible for the New Age?" (August 1997).
* "To the Illuminati, this is a year for which they've long awaited -- the triple witching of the Beast year." (November 1997).
* "Texe Marrs uncovers insider news the controlled media dare not report: … Hillary Clinton reveals family secret masquerading as a Christian and Gentile, she's actually Jewish and her grandmother was the Yiddish-speaking Della Rosenberg. Why is the First Lady only now telling the world she's a Jew?" (Secrets (Vol. 39)).
* "Is Ron Paul a Bible-believing Christian that believes in the book of Genesis all the way to Revelation? I seriously doubt that, but compare him to these other clowns. Compare him to these other buffoons. Compare him to these other lying, blaspheming dogs. Am I a bad person for saying things like that? It's just true."
Secrets (Volume 133) 25:10 August 2007.
* "Now let's get this straight. You're a pastor of a church supposedly or a bishop. A guy in your church is a big homosexual faggot, and he's a U.S. senator, but you know people might accuse you of meddling if you told him if that's a sin and that he's going to have to leave the church if he doesn't change."
Secrets (Volume 133) 43:45 August 2007.
* "The goal of the Jewish Masonic elite is to establish dictatorial Illuministic Communism and to enslave all mankind under the thumb of a Jewish master race led by a world messiah who is to rule from Jerusalem."
** "Masonic Jews Plot to Control World" from Conspiracy World (2010) {pg 179}.
# Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.
Among his relatives were James Russell Lowell, Percival Lowell and Amy Lowell.

## Quotes

* A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket-- The sea was still breaking violently and night Had steamed into our North Atlantic Fleet, When the drowned sailor clutched the drag-net. Light Flashed from his matted head and marble feet, He grappled at the net With the coiled, hurdling muscles of his thighs: The corpse was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites, Its open, staring eyes Were lustreless dead-lights Or cabin-windows on a stranded hulk Heavy with sand.
** Poem: The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
* Once fishing was a rabbit's foot-- O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot, Let suns stay in or suns step out: Life danced a jig on the sperm-whale's spout-- The fisher's fluent and obscene Catches kept his conscience clean.
** Poem: The Drunken Fisherman

## Quotes about Robert Lowell

* Over many years (I am almost 72) so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me—it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry. Some poets—like Robert Lowell, Denise Levertov, Randall Jarrell, Jean Valentine, Audre Lorde, Hayden Carruth, Jane Cooper, June Jordan, Joy Harjo, Clayton Eshelman—have been my friends, we’ve been comrades in exchanging work and encouraging each other
** Adrienne Rich, Interview (2001)
# Robert Lloyd (poet)

Robert Lloyd (1733–1764) was an English poet and satirist.

## Quotes

* Turn parson, Colman, that’s the way to thrive; Your parsons are the happiest men alive.
** ‘The Law-Student’ (1762)
* Alone from Jargon born to rescue Law, From precedent, grave hum, and formal saw! To strip chicanery of its vain pretence, And marry Common Law to Common Sense!
** ‘The Law-Student’ (1762) (on Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, 1756-88)
* True Genius, like Armida’s wand, Can raise the spring from barren land. While all the art of Imitation, Is pilf’ring from the first creation.
** ‘Shakespeare’ (1762)
# Robert Lutz

Bob Lutz (born February 12, 1932, in Zurich, Switzerland) is the General Motors Vice Chairman of Global Product Development.

## Quotes

* The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.
** Reported in Keith Naughton, "Bob Lutz: The Man Who Revived the Electric Car", Newsweek Dec. 31, 2007 - Jan. 7, 2008 issue.
* People who fear losing their jobs start lying
** Quoted in Road & Track interview What I'd Do Differently: Bob Lutz, "", Road & Track Aug, 2016
* The amazing thing about Jeep is that no one thinks of it as an American brand—it’s nationally neutral
** Quoted in Road & Track interview What I'd Do Differently: Bob Lutz, "", Road & Track Aug, 2016
# Robert Lynd

Robert Lynd may refer to:
* Robert Staughton Lynd
* Robert Wilson Lynd
This disambiguation page, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name, lists articles associated with the name Robert Lynd. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
# Sharbari Zohra Ahmed

Sharbari Zohra Ahmed (born April 5, 1971) is a Bangladeshi American writer.

## Quotes

* How can Bangladesh deny its Hindu heritage? We were originally Hindus. Islam came later.
** Sharbari Zohra Ahmed, Bangladeshi author, quoted in
# Sharif Toosy

Sharif Toosy , also known as MRT, was an influential Punjabi journalist. His books Pakistan and Muslim India & Nationalism in Conflict in India greatly influenced Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

## Quotes

* ...strengthen the bloc of Muslims states in the west of India, as together they will command allegiance of 80 millions of Muslims including the three most virile and warlike races of Islam, the Turks, the Afghans and the Arabs. If to this bloc is added the Muslim state of Pakistan, in the Northwest of India with its Muslim population of 30 millions, it will magnify the Hindu fear into a permanent nightmare and probably this may be one of the reasons why the Hindu is opposed to the idea of Pakistan.
** quoted in Venkat Dhulipala - Creating a New Medina_ State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India-Cambridge University Press (2015)

## About

* ...commend these two books to all readers who want to understand the problem of India’s future constitution and its solution and I feel that anyone who reads them dispassionately and with an open mind will find by sheer facts and figures and historical arguments that partition of India is in the interests of both the major nations, Hindus and Muslims.
** Jinnah, quoted in Venkat Dhulipala - Creating a New Medina_ State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India-Cambridge University Press (2015)
* There is a great deal of discussion and literature on this point which is available and it is for you to judge finally, when you have studied this question thoroughly, whether the Mussalmans and Hindus are not two separate nations in this sub-continent. For the moment I would refer you to two publications, although there are many more – Dr Ambedkar’s book and MRT’s Nationalism in Conflict in India.
** Jinnah, quoted in Venkat Dhulipala - Creating a New Medina_ State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India-Cambridge University Press (2015)
* The book recommended by you gives me no help. It contains half-truths and its conclusions are unwarranted.
** Mahatma Gandhi, letter to Jinnah, about the book Pakistan and Muslim India & Nationalism in Conflict in India, quoted in Venkat Dhulipala - Creating a New Medina_ State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India-Cambridge University Press (2015)
# Shaqiq al-Balkhi

Shaqiq al-Balkhi (d. 810) was an early Sufi saint of the Khorasan school. Tradition makes him the disciple of Ibrahim ibn Adham. He emphasized the importance of tawakkul or reliance upon God.

## Quotes
### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

* God hath made the pious living in their death and hath made the wicked dead during their lives, i.e., the pious, though they be dead, yet live, since the angels utter blessings on their piety until they are made immortal by the recompense which they receive at the Resurrection.
** p. 32
* Whoever comes to repent before death is not late.
** p. 32, An old man said to Shaqiq: "I have sinned much and now want to repent", Shaqiq replied this statement".
* Whose inner state is better than his outer state, is friend of God. Whose inner and outer states are alike, is savant. And whose outer condition is better than his interior, is ignorant and cunning.
** p. 32-33
* If you seek a friend, Allah Most High is sufficient for you. If we seek comrade, Kiraman Katibin (recording angels) are enough. If you seek consoler, the Holy Quran is enough. If you need work, His worship is enough. If you desire sermon, death is enough. And whatever is said to you is looked undesirable, then Hell is enough for you.
** p. 33
* Intelligent person, in true sense is that who abdicates the world before it deserts him.
** p. 33
* Who grumbles at the descent of affliction is like one who holds spear is his hand and fight with the Lord.
** p. 33
* If you desire purification of the heart then shut your eye from the corporeal world. This is the hole through which heart is defiled.
** p. 33
* Worship of God which is done for ostentation is submerged in the earth. And that which is done for God's sake ascends to celestial spheres.
** p. 33
* For the gnostic of God it is highly irksome to sit and talk with the created beings.
** p. 33
* The best atonement for the greater sins if to help the needy and down-trodden folk.
** p. 33
* The savant whose learning pursuits the Almighty God, all people hold reverential fear of him, and he whose objective is worldly gain, is afraid of the people.
** p. 33
* As long as the heart of man remains engrossed in recollection of God he is in prayer may he be in the bazaar. If his lips are too busy in dhikr; it would be much better.
** p. 33
* When once death has arrived, it does not return. So ever remain ready for it.
** p. 33
* Defer not the date of repentance for sins and confession in the hope of grace or longevity of life.
** p. 33
* Depend more on the promises of God than those of men.
** p. 33
* There are three things which a man in bound to practice. Whosoever neglects any one of them must need neglect them all, and whosoever cleaves to any one of them much needs cleave to them all. Strive therefore, to understand, and consider heedfully.
** p. 33, About Sufistic theory of Divine Unity.

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Väinämöinen

Väinämöinen is a demigod, hero and the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala. His name comes from the Finnish word väinä, meaning stream pool. Väinämöinen was described as an old (in fact already old when born) and wise man, and he possessed a potent, magical voice.

## Quotes

* Suns may rise and set in Suomi, / Rise and set for generations, / When the North will learn my teachings, / Will recall my wisdom-sayings, / Hungry for the true religion. / Then will Suomi need my coming, / Watch for me at dawn of morning, / That I may bring back the Sampo, / Bring anew the harp of joyance, / Bring again the golden moonlight, / Bring again the silver sunshine, / Peace and plenty to the Northland.
** Jonathan Clements, An Armchair Traveller's History of Finland, 2014, bookHaus, ISBN 978-1-909961-00-5
(Sampo was made by blacksmith Ilmarinen. Paavo Haavikko claimed that it was a device to counterfeit Byzantine money, in the TV-serie Rauta-aika)
# Víctor Manuel Fernández

Víctor Manuel Fernández (18 July 1962 –) is an Argentine prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* Without dialogue with culture, we risk our message, however beautiful, becoming irrelevant.
** Cardinal-elect Fernández: Jesus saves us, not a doctrine (8 July 2023) Vatican News
# Václav Malý

Václav Malý (21 September 1950 –) is a Czech prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Prague.

## Quotes

* I'm in a position now where I really have to think whether I should go to a pub, but I go from time to time with friends and have a glass of wine. It's good to show that a bishop is a normal person.
** Former Leader in Czech Revolution Now an Activist Bishop (3 May 1997) Los Angeles Times
# September

September is the ninth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. September in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of March in the Northern Hemisphere. September 1 marks the beginning of the meteorological autumn in the Northern hemisphere, and the beginning of the meteorological spring Southern hemisphere.

## Quotes

* Summer has come and passed: The innocent can never last; wake me up when September ends.
** Billie Joe Armstrong, "Wake Me Up When September Ends", American Idiot (2004), California: Reprise Records
* O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.
** George Arnold, "September Days", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 698–99
* Do you remember, the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders, while chasing the clouds away.
** Earth, Wind & Fire, "September", The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 (23 November 1978), New York City: American Record Corporation
* It was the third of September: That day, I'll always remember. Yes I will, because that was the day that my daddy died.
** Dennis Edwards, "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", All Directions (27 July 1972), California: Gordy Records
* The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if new-born; There was that nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.
** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863–1874), Part I, The Student's Tale, The Falcon of Sir Federigo, line 135
* Come out 'tis now September, The hunter's moon's begun, And through the wheaten stubble Is heard the frequent gun.
** Elizabeth Stirling Bridge, "All Among the Barley", The Musical Times, No. 187. "Supplement", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 698–99
* The sultry summer past, September comes, Soft twilight of the soft-declining year. All mildness, soothing loneliness and peace; The fading season ere the falling come.
** Carlos Wilcox, "The Age of Benevolence", Extracts from Book II, in Remains of the Rev. Carlos Wilcox (Hartford: Edward Hopkins, 1828), p. 153

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on September on Wikipedia
* The dictionary definition of September on Wiktionary
# Sepandar Kamvar

Sepandar David Kamvar (born 1977), also known as Sep Kamvar, is a computer scientist, artist, author and entrepreneur. He was previously the LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and director of the Social Computing group at the MIT Media Lab.

## Quotes

* Once we consider that true efficiency of a human, we start thinking in a different way. The technology we design has a lighter touch; it aims to aid our natural capacity for intelligence rather than replace it.
** Syntax & Sage: Reflections on Software and Nature (2015)
* The artist builds a framework, and the community fills it in.
** Syntax & Sage: Reflections on Software and Nature (2015)
# Separatist movements of India

Separatism in India typically refers to state secession, which is the withdrawal of one or more states from the Republic of India.

## Quotes

* [Soon after the Muslim League had passed its resolution demanding Pakistan in 1940, the Dravidian ideologue E.V. Ramasamy Nayakar (popularly known as EVR) passed a similar resolution demanding a sovereign state, to be called Dravidistan. In 1941, at the twenty-eight Annual session of the Muslim League, Jinnah and EVR shared the dais and Jinnah extended full support to splitting off something called Dravidistan:] I have every sympathy and shall do all to help, and you establish Dravidistan, where the seven percent Muslim population will stretch its hand of friendship and live with you on lines of security, justice and fair play.
** Jinnah, in Johari, J.C. Voices of Indian Freedom Movement. New Delhi: AnmolPublications, 1993 quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
* [In India’s Nagaland state, there is an insurgency driven by the idea of a Maoist Christian nation-state. The Naga separatist guerillas declared in their manifesto:] The sovereign existence of our country, the salvation of our people in socialism with their spiritual salvation in Christ, are unquestionable. . . . We stand for socialism. . . . We stand for faith in God and the salvation of mankind in Jesus, the Christ, alone, that is, ‘Nagaland for Christ’. . . . We rule out the illusion of saving Nagaland through peaceful means. It is arms and arms alone that will save our nation.
** Freston, Paul. Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2004 quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
** also in Separatism in North-East India: Role of Religion, Language ... Dr. Kunal Ghosh · 2008 also in Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern ... Michael Jerryson · 2020 also in The Periphery Strikes Back: Challenges to the Nation-state ...Udayon Misra · 2000 · ‎