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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Stacey Abrams. Albert Einstein.   There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because…
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H.L. Mencken. Abraham Lincoln. Groucho Marx.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series…
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Elmer T. Peterson. George Eliot. George Orwell.   A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the…
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Issac Asimov. W.E.B. Du Bois. Brendan Meyers.   There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its…
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Marie Curie. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Buddha.   Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie…
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Mona Eltahawy. Abigail Adams. JoeAnn Hart.   Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us…
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H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,…
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H.L. Mencken. Albert Einstein. Hermione Gingold. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of…