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Audre Lorde. Martin Luther King Jr. Stéphane Hessel.   For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will…
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Shirley Chisholm. Eleanor Roosevelt. Hillary Clinton.   Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. Their first rule is “don’t rock the boat.” If someone makes trouble and you can get him,…
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Angela Davis. H.L. Mencken. Adlai Stevenson.   I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who…
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Amos Wilson. Lindy West. Abhijit Naskar.   Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence…
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Robert B Reich. Gary J Floyd. DJ Kyos.   Americans have clung to the meritocratic tautology that individuals are paid what they’re worth in the market, without examining changes in the legal and political…
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George Santayana. Adlai Stevenson. Dante Alighieri.   The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the…
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  Adolf Hitler. Joseph Goebells. Joseph Stalin. Donald J Trump.   We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian. Adolf Hitler, 27 October 1928.  …
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Thomas Frank. Henry Wallace. Hillary Rodham Clinton.   Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school:…
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Bell Hooks. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. Angela Davis.   I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance. Bell Hooks.   (more…)
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Dorothy Thompson. Winston S.Churchill. Aristotle.   To believe in liberal democracy is to believe that there is more good will in society than ill will; more ground for agreement than disagreement; more things that…
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Haile Selassie I. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hunter S. Thompson. Julian Barnes.   Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And…
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