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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
-Vladimir Nabokov
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
-Toni Morrison
#RecommendedReading:
American Carnage
Sasha Abramsky
(OR Books, 2026)
#RecommendedReading:
A Genocide Fortold
Chris Hedges
(Seven Stories Press, 2025)
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"...Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence."
-Charles Bukowski
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"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others..."
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
-George Bernard Shaw
I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.
-Nelson Algren
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
-Molière
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
-Jane Austen
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
-Mary Wollstonecraft
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
-Marcus Aurelius
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
-Simone Weil
White House deletes JD Vance’s social media post referring to Armenian genocide:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...htt
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...indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them."
-J. M. Coetzee
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"Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,..
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.
-
Arundhati Roy
