Like human resources, the Democrats are a party of norms, procedure, bureaucracy, DEI initiatives, rule following, language policing, and compliance. It is in this way that the Democratic Party feels not so much infuriating and threatening, but just kind of an annoying bummer.
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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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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I’ve been thinking this past week about how the Democratic Party is seen, and it hit me: The Democratic Party resembles that most American of institutions: the HR department.
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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It’s funny that I’ve gone from hating pop psychology to being way too Freudian. I can see all my fears and desires in it. Ones I could never give in to because I was deep in the church and I was a super-suppressed gay dude.
~ Marlon James
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What difference do it make if the thing you’re scared of is real or not?
~ Toni Morrison
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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Nonviolent resistance is not aimed against oppressors, but against oppression.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We need to take more care of our environment. That means not only our personal environment but also our cities and our resources. That is the future of design.
~ Dieter Rams
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The hardest thing I ever did was keep my temper at that time.
~ George C. Marshall
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Because the life man sees is not the final end of things, the moment we attain to greatness of any kind by personal labour and will we become fragmentary, and find no task in active life which can use our finest faculties.
~ William Butler Yeats
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