Angela Yvonne Davis (January 26, 1944 -) There is this freedom movement and then there is an attempt to narrow the freedom movement so that it fits into a much smaller frame, the frame of civil rights. Not that civil rights is not immensely important, but freedom is more expansive that civil rights. And as …
Lucy Stone On Women Liberationist
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) We want to be something more than the appendages of Society; we want that Woman should be the coequal and help-meet of Man in all the interest and perils and enjoyments of human life. We want that she should attain to the development of her nature …
Abbott Joseph “A. J.” Liebling On War
Abbott Joseph “A. J.” Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) The times were full of certainties: we could be certain we were right — and we were — and that certainty made us certain that anything we did was right, too. I have seldom been sure I was right since. … I know …
Hagai El-Ad On Israel’s Apartheid
Hagai El-Ad (October 01, 1969 -) One cannot live a single day in Israel-Palestine without the sense that this place is constantly being engineered to privilege one people, and one people only: the Jewish people. Yet half of those living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are Palestinian. The chasm between these lived …
Charles M Blow On Move On, But Never Forget
Charles McRay Blow (August 11, 1970 -) There is a legitimate argument to be made that a spiral of recriminations will always descend into a hole of collective harm... There has to be some acknowledgment that children were taken from their parents, some locked in cages, and that many may never be reunited with their …
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Rebecca Solnit On Democracy And Authoritarianism
Rebecca Solnit (June 24, 1961 -) Democracy is a set of agreements to make decisions together and respect the outcome whether you like them or not. The kind of violence we saw on Capitol Hill (Jan 06, 2021) is authoritarian, a way to try to force other people to submit to the will of the …
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Howard Zinn On War
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922– January 27, 2010) We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. Syrian Civil War 2011 to Present
Donald Trump On The Death Of 250,000 American Citizens To The Co-Vid 19 Virus
Donald Trump (June 14, 1946 -) Remember : This happened on my watch! Note: The words above were spoken by Donald Trump after the announcement by Pfizer of a possible vaccine. If he wishes to take credit for the vaccine then he must also take credit and is responsible for the deaths which occurred during …
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Erich Fromm On Freedom
Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton. Please remember this …
Jimmy Carter On Strength
James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924 -) A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs …
Octavia Butler On Leadership
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a …
Jeanine Michna-Bales On Woman ‘s Suffrage
Jeanine Michna-Bales The suffrage movement was really born out of the antislavery movement. It hit home that for a very long time ‘democracy’ only applied to certain people — white men. Please remember this when you Vote on November 03, 2020. Thank you.
Ronald Reagan On The Economy
Ronald Reagan (February 06, 1911 - June 05, 2004) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Nayib Bukele On Migration
Nayib Bukele President of El Salvador (July 24, 1981 -) It is our fault... I think migration is a right, but it should be an option, not an obligation. And right now it's an obligation for a lot of people… Why? Because they don't have a job, because they are being threatened by gangs, because …
Charles M Blow On Is Trump a Rapist?
Charles McRay Blow (August 11, 1970 -) This president (Donald Trump) acts as if he is above the law, or is the law. He lies and he cheats and he bullies. He is hateful and rude and racist. He talks about women to whom he is attracted as if they’re objects to be possessed and …
Lyndon B Johnson On Voting, Racism And Fear
Lyndon B Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) I think that the so-called 'white backlash' is destructive, not only of the interests of Negro Americans, but of all those who stand to gain from humane and farsighted government. And those that stand to gain from humane and farsighted government is everybody. Nevertheless, there …
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David Brooks On Trump
David Brooks (August 11, 1962 -) This is less a party than a personality cult. Law and order is a strange theme for a candidate who radiates conflict and disorder. Some rich children are careless that way; they break things and other people have to clean up the mess.
Thomas L. Friedman On Trump And Nationalism
Thomas Loren Friedman (July 20, 1953 -) More than any time in my career, I think our country is in danger. It has a disturbed man as president, whose job description — to be a healer of the country in times of great national hurt and to pull us together to do big hard things that …
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Michael Chertoff On Divisions
Michael Chertoff (November 26, 1953 -) We have got to take a serious look at why we have reached a point that we have this level of social fracture.
Frederick Douglass On Crimes Of The Unites States
Frederick Douglass (February 01, 1818–February 20, 1895) There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour…At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, …
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Eduardo Porter On Social Dysfunction
Eduardo Porter The United States is one of the richest, most technologically advanced nations in the history of humanity. And yet it accepts — proudly defends, even — a degree of social dysfunction that would be intolerable in any other rich society.
Hannah Arendt On Tyranny
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) Tyranny, according to ancient, pre-theoretical understanding, was the form of government in which the ruler had monopolized for himself the right of action and banished the citizens from the public realm into the privacy of the household where they were supposed to mind their own, private …
Rex Tillerson On Integrity
Rex Wayne Tillerson (March 23, 1952 —) If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom…When we as people, a free people, go wobbly on the truth …
James Comey On A Dangerous Time
James Brien Comey Jr. (December 14, 1960 -) We are experiencing a dangerous time in our country, with a political environment where basic facts are disputed, fundamental truth is questioned, lying is normalized and unethical behavior is ignored, excused or rewarded.
Jiddu Krishnamurti On Killing: Let Us Not Forget
Jiddu Krishnamurti May 11, 1895 – February 17, 1986) But apparently man loves to kill things, the fleeting deer, the marvelous gazelle, and the great elephant. We love to kill each other. This killing of other human beings has never stopped throughout the history of man's life on this earth. If we could, and we must, …
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Karen Reyes On DACA
Karen Reyes There’s so much pressure to be a perfect immigrant. They basically want us to save babies from burning buildings, have a 5.0 GPA and become doctors. But I’m just teaching these tiny humans to be great Americans.
Hannah Arendt On Silent Intercourse
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) A person who does not know that silent intercourse (in which we examine what we say and what we do) will not mind contradicting himself, and this means he will never be either able or willing to account for what he says or does; nor will …
John Brennan on Donald Trump
John Brennan (September 22, 1955 -) When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you (Donald Trump) will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history.
Charles Krauthammer On Trump
Charles Krauthammer (March 13, 1950 – June 21, 2018) This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a …
Joseph Goebbels On Lies And Hatred
Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 01, 1945) Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it. Donald Trump has worn the shoes of Joseph Goebbels every day of his administration. He averaged six point five lies per day during the first eighteen months of …
Trevor Noah On Fear And Laughter
Trevor Noah (February 20, 1984 -) It’s the most terrifying thing, and it’s the funniest thing at the same time…Every day I wake up terrified at the notion that he’s president (Trump) of the most powerful nation in the world, but I must admit, every day I also wake up knowing he’s going to make …
Sam Nunberg On Politics
Sam Nunberg (June 21, 1981 -) The misconception is that the president (Trump) does not know what he does not know. In my experience, the reality is that the president knows what he does not know and does not think he needs to know it.
Anton Chekhov On Freedom
Anton Chekhov (January 29, 1860 – July 15, 1904) My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter two take. Note: I believe as citizens we have a right to the truth. It is …
For The Love Of Wisdom 