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“While I am marginalized in my own right, it is important to acknowledge my complicity in the occupation of stolen land.”
― Ziwe Fumudoh, Black Friend: Essays

“I know: you no longer believe in anything,” said Manette disapprovingly. “That’s not quite true.” “What do you believe in?” “People’s suffering, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“We believe that we have checks and balances, but have rarely faced a situation like the present: when the less popular of the two parties suppresses voting, claims fraud when it loses elections, and controls the majority of statehouses. The party that exercises such control proposes few policies that are popular with the society at large, and several that are unpopular—and thus must either fear democracy or weaken it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century