Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card
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A third of my country is under water right now – bridges, roads, schools, and other critical infrastructure sinks, and people run to evacuate their homes.
Anam Rathor, writing about Pakistan in this important post
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“Today, our highest duty is to bend the arc of history to preserve our nation and its blessings to ensure that freedom will not perish, to protect the very foundations of this constitutional republic.”
~~~ Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) in her concession speech after losing her primary race because she is standing up for the Constitution and election integrity in the face of Trump’s lies
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
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In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
Jonas Mekas
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No, I’m not a troublemaker but I am a truth teller, and that can get you into a lot of trouble. But people deserve other people’s answers, other points of view, so they can assemble their own.
Joan Chittister, OSB
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One can be a critic of one’s country without being an enemy of its promise.
Daniel Bell
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It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, June 1, 1950, speaking against McCarthyism
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The future is dark. Is this the darkness of the tomb – or of the womb?
Valerie Kaur
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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Elie Wiesel
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