Abigail
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“Philosophy has also helped me learn to love the world again.”
― Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room: A Philosophy Primer for an Anxious Age
― Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room: A Philosophy Primer for an Anxious Age
“There is a certain romance in being the lone individual standing up to an evil institution, but that is seldom how real change happens.”
― Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room: A Philosophy Primer for an Anxious Age
― Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room: A Philosophy Primer for an Anxious Age
“I though everyone took vacations on a train with armed sentries at both ends of each car. It was an adventure.”
― They Called Us Enemy
― They Called Us Enemy
“He said we have no reports of spying, or sabotage, or fifth column activities by Japanese Americans… and that is ominous because the Japanese are inscrutable. You don’t know what they’re thinking. So it would be prudent to lock them up before they do anything. The absence of evidence was the evidence, for this attorney general.”
― They Called Us Enemy
― They Called Us Enemy
“So much of the anxiety we experience comes from the fear that things will remain forever as they are now, weather that is the individual worry that we will always struggle with sleep or self-image or larger concerns that the police will always play the same role in our society as they do at present. There is nothing to say that such things won’t happen – no one can predict the future, as reassuring as that might be – but one of the ways to avoid giving into despair is to simply say “no.” I believe police abolition is possible, and I choose to live in light of that fact and continue to work toward making it a reality.”
― Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room: A Philosophy Primer for an Anxious Age
― Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room: A Philosophy Primer for an Anxious Age
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