“For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance.”
— Kahlil Gibran
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Every gun that is made...
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
President Dwight Eisenhower
President Dwight Eisenhower
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Thomas Paine quote
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum." -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
ROBERT CREAMER: During the Holidays We Celebrate Progressive Values
When you think of the heroes and heroines of American -- and world -- history you think of the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Cesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy, Mohandas Gandhi and Franklin Roosevelt...
...Let's be clear: "Greed is good" is not being celebrated at Christmas. The values of Ebenezer Scrooge do not define the Christmas spirit -- past, present or future. More tax breaks for the top one percent is not the moral of A Christmas Carol.
Read article here
...Let's be clear: "Greed is good" is not being celebrated at Christmas. The values of Ebenezer Scrooge do not define the Christmas spirit -- past, present or future. More tax breaks for the top one percent is not the moral of A Christmas Carol.
Read article here
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Anti-intellectualism in the US
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”.”
— Isaac Asimov, US biochemist and science fiction author (1920-1992)
— Isaac Asimov, US biochemist and science fiction author (1920-1992)
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