"I stick to my firm, unshakeable belief that the Black press is an advocacy #Press, and I plead guilty, because I think I am an instrument of change." - Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), American journalist, editor, foreign correspondent, civil rights activist

Protect the freedom to read. Take action during #BannedBooksWeek (4-10 October 2026), including buying a banned book and donating it to a beleaguered library. #LetBooksBe #ALA bannedbooksweek.org

"The battle for #Conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong." - John Muir, American naturalist, author, 'Father of the National Parks'

"The comfortable elite consensus of the 1990s and 2000s failed the vast majority of Americans while feeding an insatiable hunger in the wealthiest. These Midas-diseased super-rich are the most dangerous enemies #Democracy has ever known." - Sarah Chayes, American journalist

T2's Sarah Connor (most likely): Make sure you're registered and then vote like your future depends on it... because it does. #VoteBlue #Democrat #BlueWave

"The far-right’s violence against minority communities... is the movement’s tip of the spear, the most violent & visible manifestation of its vitriol. But the threat... is far broader, embracing a limitless collection of enemies targeted for violence." - Dr. Bruce Hoffman (2024), political analyst

"An accurate charting of American Women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom... but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal." - Susan Faludi, American journalist

"I believe that there is no role for politics in the proper administration of #Justice. A prosecutor’s decisions must be based on the facts and the law. The status, power, prominence, or political affiliation of the subject of an investigation must play no role... ." - Jack Smith, J.D. (2026)

"Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones [who] direct our #Economy and destroyed millions of jobs, still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them." - Senator Elizabeth Warren

"If you want to preserve Democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started. They get started by suppressing #FreePress." - John McCain

"Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, #Oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy Democracy. In each case, they overreached, and regular folks took back their government." - Dr. Heather Cox Richardson, American historian

"Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers," Dr. James E. Hansen (2011), American climate scientist

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent #Leader." - Dolly Parton

"Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity." - Jane Mayer (2014), American investigative journalist, author

"I don't think most people are aware of the exotic and extreme tools at the disposal of the most powerful and wealthy men of America when they are bent at silencing accusations against them." - Ronan Farrow, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize recipient

"We in the #Press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed." - Helen Thomas (1920-2013), American political journalist, author

"[U.S. has] to re-evaluate the way we test chemicals. [E.U. has] to test a chemical that's going to be used in or near humans for its effect on human health before you can market it. We... only began testing after complaints that people have been harmed." - Harriet A. Washington, medical ethicist

"When we talk about current climate change... we mainly think about temperature. But what is happening now is that the temperature change on this planet has affected the global water cycle... That is one of the reasons why we get droughts more & more frequently." - Dr. Syukuro Manabe, climatologist

"As the effects of global warming become more and more difficult to ignore, will we react by finally fashioning a global response? Or will we retreat into ever narrower and more destructive forms of self-interest?" - Elizabeth Kolbert, American author, journalist

"When people learn that our shared #Humanity binds us one to the other... that is when our Society will honor its stated commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all." - Dr. Roderic I. Pettigrew, American physicist, engineer, physician

"It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun… Unless #Women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically." - Dr. Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977), American women's rights activist

#September18 #KennedyCenter #HandsAroundTheKennedyCenter

Kerry Kennedy@kerrykennedy.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 @ 6:30 PM EST The Kennedy Center, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC RSVP: protest.handsoffthearts.org

"The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values." - Whitney M. Young, Jr. (1921-1971), civil rights leader, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

"Without oversight, human beings too often behave badly. When the facts are pursued with ruthless thoroughness, #WatchdogJournalism helps keep American institutions accountable to all.” - Florence George Graves, investigative journalist, editor

"No wealth in the world can help humanity forward... The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to #Selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it." - Albert Einstein

#October17 #NoKings #VoteEarly

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 4w ago

🚨 OCTOBER 17 — NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY! With our democracy at stake, we're showing up again to promote unprecedented voter participation in the midterms. Our goal is to translate the historic protest power of No Kings mobilizations into a massive wave of voter turnout.

"As more #Women enter public life, I see developing a more humane society... The community as the extended family will rekindle its caring and nurturing." - Dorothy I. Height (1912-2010), American civil rights and women's rights activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

Through strength in numbers, cooperation, and coordinated tactics, female lions work together to defend their pride against invading #Predators. Our time for political action is now. #LWV #NOW #EmergeAmerica

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that #Democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'." - Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author, biochemist, professor

"We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the sum total of the #Courage and the #Integrity of its individuals. It cannot be better than they are." - Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat, humanitarian, activist