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- Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
- The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant…
- Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the…
- I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and…
- Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t…
- It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the…
- ...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers.…
- A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and…
- Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up…
- Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up…
- Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a…
- When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game?…
- You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system…
- The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain…
- Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
- Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
- If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my…
- Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- The Things That Make You Feel Bad, Are The Ones That Will Eventually Go Away, So, You Should Never Give Up Fighting,… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold