December 2011
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It is a well-known fact that since most Libertarians are engineers and IT guys,...
– Libertarians and the internet (Uncyclopedia)
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Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90% of black youngsters will be on food...
– Lindsey Tanner Associated Press
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Any time you surrender a prejudice or presupposition, that’s a certain death. To...
– Cornel West
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent...
– Charles Darwin
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
– Jane Austen
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. That’s what keeps this country free...
– Cornel west
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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been...
– Abraham Lincoln
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11 Facts From 2011
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support raising taxes on millionaires.
5. Wall Street’s recession cost 1.5 million times more than securing Occupy Wall Street protests.
6. Six Walmart...
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Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map...
– Muhammad Ali
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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But...
– Abraham Lincoln
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep...
– Barack Obama
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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral...
– George Eliot
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason...
– John Locke
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Keep smiling, keep fighting, keep thinking, keep loving, keep serving, and keep...
– Dr. Cornel West
The unexamined life is not worth living; Plato says in line 38a of The Apology....
– Dr. Cornel West - The Examined Life
The culture of advanced capitalist American society, the culture of consumption,...
– Dr. Cornel West
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Every step towards the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and...
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Last year, the N.Y.P.D. recorded more than 600,000 stops; 84 percent of those...
– Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. - NYTimes.com