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It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. -Leonardo da Vinci
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. -Martin Luther King Jr.
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No Path Forward, No Way Back, Imperial Decline Edition
When American politicians state that terrorism is a threat, what they need is a mirror and an introductory economics textbook to understand that there are many different ways to destroy a nation. From...
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. -Albert Camus
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. -Thomas Jefferson
1/2 "As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—"
La discriminación es la única arma que tienen los mediocres para sobresalir. -Guillermo Gapel
All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They! -Rudyard Kipling
Everything that can be said, can be said clearly. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Houston officials call out lack of federal collaboration after fatal ICE shooting | CNN
Days after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a Houston man, frustration is growing among local officials who say federal agencies are resisting collaboration on the investigation into the conte...
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Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early. -George Will
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
You can't have a democracy when people don't learn to put themselves in the shoes of another person, who can't think what their policies mean for others. -Martha Nussbaum
In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator. -Judith Lewis Herman