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May 25, 2026 12:07PM

 
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The impossibility of doing it forestalled the possibility of even wanting to do it, which in turn made sure it never entered into the realm of possibilities.
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Jonathan Blitzer
“Six years later, the welfare reform bill reminded Muñoz of what had first pushed her into organizing. Millions of legal immigrants spent years of their lives paying taxes and starting families, only to see the political debate suddenly shift.”
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Fernando Pessoa
“Money is beautiful, because it is a liberation … Wanting to go and die in Peking and not being able to is something that weighs on me like the idea of some imminent cataclysm.”
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Jonathan Blitzer
“Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, delivered the keynote. “Woe to our society if to be human becomes a heroic act,” he said.”
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Mikki Kendall
“voters who switched parties to vote for Trump were motivated by the possibility of a fall in social status: “In short, they feared that they were in the process of losing their previously privileged positions.” Instead of taking rising college enrollment rates by marginalized people as a sign that they would need to improve their own skills, they voted based on a fear they were losing their privilege and thus their positions.”
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Mikki Kendall
“Dehumanization is the first step in justifying voting against the rights of other people.”
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