94 Quotes

“She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to the park has also been raised by the increasing number of homeless New Yorkers. Poor people--from the 'squatters' of the 1850s to the 'tramps' of the 1870s and 1890s to the Hooverville residents of the 1930s--have always turned to the park land for shelter...The growing visibility of homeless people in Central Park osed in the starkest terms the contradiction between Americans' commitment to democratic space and their acquiescence in vast disparities of wealth and power.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“Or should we ask pardon from the dead, our dead, those who die 'natural' deaths of 'natural causes' like measles, whooping cough, breakbone fever, cholera, typhoid, mononucleosis, tetanus, pneumonia, malaria, and other lovely gastrointestinal and lung diseases? Our dead, the majority dead, the democratically dead, dying from sorrow because no one did anything, because the dead, our dead, went just like that, without anyone even counting them, without anyone saying "ENOUGH!" which would have at least given some meaning to their deaths, a meaning which no one ever sought for them, the forever dead, who are now dying again, but this time in order to live." - Zapatistas on being offered a pardon in exchange for their surrender”
― Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor