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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Until we find the communal meaning and significance of the suffering of all life, we will continue to retreat into our individual, small worlds in our misguided quest for personal safety and sanity.
Richard Rohr
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It is almost always fear that justifies our knee-jerk rebellion or our need to dominate—a fear that is hardly ever recognized as such because we are acting out and trying to control the situation.
Richard Rohr
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Slava Ukraini! (Glory to Ukraine!)
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Tonight, we meet…with an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny.
U.S. President Joe Biden, near the beginning of his State of the Union address to Congress last night
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I’m not cynical at all. Cynicism is a dead end.
Dr. Paul Farmer
Dr. Farmer co-founded Partners in Health and brought health care to some of the world’s most impoverished communities. He died this week at the age of 62.
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History does not repeat, but it does instruct.
Timothy Snyder
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“You should know be now that I cannot introduce any topic without also introducing the history of the entire world.”
~~~ Dr. Melody Ross in this twitter thread, although I feel that, while I don’t know Dr. Ross, I do know other people who could say the same thing.
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Joanne Corey 