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A tragedy has taken place on our land, and even though it did not take place on our watch, we are its inheritors, and the earth remembers.

 - Dan, Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder

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Let us put our minds together and see what kind of life we can make for our children.

 - Sitting Bull I, 

as qtd. in: Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder, 

by Kent Nerburn, 

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

- Attributed to George Orwell 

(Post by: Robert Reich)

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - 
not in pity or patronizingly, 
but as human beings
 who have learnt how to turn our common suffering 
into hope for the future. 

- Nelson Mandela

I think we have a new quote of the millennium . . .

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, by black and white. 

By Indian and white. 

But I know that isn’t true. 

The world is only broken into two tribes. 

The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

- Sherman Alexie, 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian.

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The Flat Earth Society actually does claim to have members all around the globe.

- Bruce Norbeck. Take all the time you need . . .

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien, 

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups. …. 

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity …. 

They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

- Vice President Henry A. Wallace, 

“The Danger of American Fascism,” April 1944

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I try to keep things positive on this blog, but this election has me thinking that maybe Jean-Paul Sartre was right.

L'enfer, c'est les autres.

Hell is other people.

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The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

- Ray Kroc

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The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

- John Wooden

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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

    -Harold Kushner

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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

 - Voltaire

Pertinent, No?

But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under then.

- Fahrenheit 451.

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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

  - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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Your greatest responsibility is to use your voice, for there are so many people, too many people, in our world who are never heard - even when they scream. 

- Cleo Wade

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,

Or what's a heaven for?

- Robert Browning

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I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

 - Marilyn Monroe

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Thou shalt not be a victim,

thou shalt not be a perpetrator,

but, above all,

thou shalt not be a bystander.

- Yehuda Bauer

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

- Isaac Asimov

Foundation