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Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

by Alexei Yurchak

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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein

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He was shocked to hear, again and again: “Wallace or Kennedy, either one.” Ideologically, that made little sense; during the Kennedy administration, the segregationist Governor George C. Wallace and the anti-segregationist Attorney General ...more

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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin

tags: dissent, patriotism, protest

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“I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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“Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
― Diogenes

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