Kimmy Hudon

“There will always be those seeking to suppress the votes of young people and people of color, to restrict ballot access, to take away drop boxes, to limit early voting and mail-in voting, to facilitate longer lines in minority-majority communities. There will always be those campaigning to strip women of their reproductive rights, or refusing to acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ Americans. There will always be those leading efforts to ban books but promote AR-15s. There will always be those waging disinformation campaigns and exploiting a mainstream media apparatus too easily duped by bad actors. There will always be those seeking to break the very government that the country depends upon to function. Those people will always be there.”
― Brian Tyler Cohen, Shameless: Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

“The danger in fundamentalist surety is that when one believes their way is the only way, people will commit acts of violence or moral error, sure that they are doing their God’s work, or sure that their ends justify the means.”
― Brittney Hartley, No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required

“One fellow officer said a group that had gotten inside the Capitol told him, “Put your gun down, and we’ll show you what kind of nigger you really are!” The irony of that moment was that more than seventy years after Sergeant Isaac Woodard—after the civil rights movement; after the deaths of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, and others; after the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional; after Black people’s continued service in every war; and after the election of an African American as president of the United States—we were just “niggers” to them, just like that Black veteran of World War II who had come home from war only to be beaten and blinded by white cops.”
― Harry Dunn, Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th

“The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.”
― Erasmus, Desideri Erasmi Roterodami Convivia E Conloquiis Familiaribus Selecta