“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.” — William Faulkner …

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” — Aristotle
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“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.” — Audre Lorde …

“American society is very like a fish society. Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.” — Margaret Mead …

“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.” — Thomas Stoppard …

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. …

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” — Galileo …

“A society that has more justice, is a society that needs less charity.” — Ralph Nader …

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” — Voltaire …

“As most people agonized and even panicked over the sudden economic collapse, the Christian right’s peddlers of crisis lifted their hands to the heavens. They had a whole new world of trauma to exploit a whole new world of trauma to exploit, more desperate and embittered followers to manipulate, and maybe – just maybe – another chance at power.” — Max Blumenthal …