Mike I.

“You can't really move forward until you look back.

[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]”
― Cornel West

“Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both.”
― Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

“For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“You can't be neutral on a moving train.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times