Marlena

“In interviews and impassioned speeches on university campuses all across the country, Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3

“Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself,”
― David Finkel, Thank You for Your Service

“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“To ignore the fact that one of the oldest republics in the world was erected on a foundation of white supremacy, to pretend that the problems of a dual society are the same as the problems of unregulated capitalism, is to cover the sin of national plunder with the sin of national lying.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy