Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It’s no credit to this enormously rich country that there are more oppressive, less decent governments elsewhere. We claim superiority of our institutions. We ought to live up to our own standards, not use misery elsewhere as an endless source of self-gratification and justification.
~ James Baldwin
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Colleges have become a little too closely tied to the policy objectives of one of the two political parties.
~ Steven Brint – Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Riverside
via Colleges Wonder if They Will Be ‘the Enemy’ Under Trump
published on November 11, 2024 in the New York Times
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The iPhone 12 mini was released today – November 13 – in 2020.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
~ Niels Bohr
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nonviolent resistance is not aimed against oppressors, but against oppression.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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