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"Had this a couple years ago but just got this updated version as Reid added a chapter on Trump and race, with which I apparently must torture myself." — Dec 06, 2016 06:28AM
"Had this a couple years ago but just got this updated version as Reid added a chapter on Trump and race, with which I apparently must torture myself." — Dec 06, 2016 06:28AM
“Our actions are part of who we are. It's not that we are inert things who do stuff. Rather, the stuff we do and who we are are inextricably woven together.”
― Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
― Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
“We just need to feel we know, or we can’t rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so. Lots”
― Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
― Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
“The truth is that the hard-fought victories of the Civil Rights Movement caused a reaction that stripped Brown of its power, severed the jugular of the Voting Rights Act, closed off access to higher education, poured crack cocaine into the inner cities, and locked up more black men proportionally than even apartheid-era South Africa.”
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
“Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.”
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“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
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