Dec
09
2013
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” — Nelson Mandela …
Dec
06
2013
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” — Nelson Mandela
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Dec
05
2013
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” — George Orwell …
Dec
04
2013
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” — Stella Adler …
Dec
03
2013
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” — Oscar Wilde, …
Dec
02
2013
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” — Ansel Adams …
Nov
27
2013
Give Thanks by Chelsea Manning: I’m usually hesitant to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. After all, the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony systematically terrorized and slaughtered the very same Pequot tribe that assisted the first English refugees to arrive at Plymouth Rock. So, perhaps ironically, I’m thankful that I know that, and I’m also thankful that there are people who seek out, and usually find, such truths. I’m thankful for people who, even surrounded by …
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Nov
26
2013
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” — Mahatma Gandhi …
Nov
25
2013
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” — W.E.B. Du Bois …
Nov
22
2013
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy …