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August 28/29, 2018
"The hypocrisy of America's actions in the world stand clearly opposed to our vision of our country as "the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, rapists, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization." - Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Politically speaking, tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by "a world of enemies", "one against all", that a fundmental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man": Hannah Arendt, from her book The Origins Of Totalitarianism p.227
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God": Benjamin Franklin
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance": Benjamin Franklin
" I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights." - Bishop Desmond Tutu:
"Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death." - Eugene V. Debs: - 1908 speech
"Fear is not the natural state of civilized people". - Aung San Suu Kyi:
McCain made it his personal duty to market Islamist insurgents to America as a cross between the Minutemen and the Freedom Riders of the civil rights era. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50136.htm