Keith June

“Democratic government that relied on direct representation and universal suffrage could not succeed, since it assumed an equality within the Volk that did not exist. To a certain extent, scientists and engineers—like women, the working class, churches, and so on—gained access to power through the Führer. This was the “leader principle” that operated in all Nazi institutions and drew strength from the tradition of monarchic authoritarianism in Germany. In 1934, Hitler declared himself not only chancellor but “leader.” This meant he claimed not only constitutional powers but extragovernmental powers that required his followers to declare their allegiance to him. He expressed the true will of the Volk so that any opposition or criticism was precluded. No interests or groups or ideas existed alongside him: “In place of conflicts and compromise, there was to be only the absolute enemy on whom the sights of the unified nation were fixed” (Bracher 1970, pp. 340–44). Since authority and power originated with Hitler, the fate”
― Paul R. Josephson, Totalitarian Science and Technology

“early forties. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. The “Colored Men of Philadelphia” responded in anger and in love. They began by denying that color distinguished them as much as slavery did, forcing ignorance and poverty on them. Religion did not show that the Creator judged His creatures by their color. Stressing their status as property holders in Pennsylvania, owning houses and other property worth millions in the aggregate, they asked, “Shall we sacrifice this, leave our homes, forsake our birth-place, and flee to a strange land, to appease the anger and prejudice of the traitors now in arms against the Government, or their aiders and abettors in this or in foreign lands?” They also asked whether the strangers who would take their places would “make better citizens, prove as loyal, love the country better, and be as obedient to its laws as we have been?”
― William A. Blair, Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered

“statues and pageantry can fool you. They look like symbols of wars long settled, fought on behalf of men long dead. But their Redemption is not about honoring a past. It’s about killing a”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“description of design justice: Design justice is a framework for analysis of how design distributes benefits and burdens between various groups of people. Design justice focuses explicitly on the ways that design reproduces and/or challenges the matrix of domination (white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, settler colonialism, and other forms of structural inequality). Design justice is also a growing community of practice that aims to ensure a more equitable distribution of design’s benefits and burdens; meaningful participation in design decisions; and recognition of community-based, Indigenous, and diasporic design traditions,”
― Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need