no. 671

"You can organize a book burning but we will always whisper them to each other, share them in the dark and let amazing art be the trees whose shade our children will use to write their own books that need to be burned."

@JurlinaAntonio

no. 670

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them." 

Maya Angelou

No. 669

"R(ight)W(ing) psychology is instinctively deferential to hierarchy. Kiss up & shit down."

David Roberts (@drvox) on Twitter

no. 668

“And it was a choice. Never pretend you were forced. There is no force great enough to compel someone to do such things. There was no ulterior motive, no greater good. You did it for a pat on the head and a chance to have even more power. What more could you want, Ilia? You held lives in the palm of your hand and destroyed them at a whim. What more could you ever want?” 
“I wouldn’t expect you to understand.”
 “I don’t.” He shook his head. “But neither do you. That’s the worst part. You don’t even know what you wanted. You just killed and killed and killed. You were a force of evil and destruction without even having the decency to care why you did those things. The universe will be better off without you.” 
She screamed as his knife drove into her heart and twisted. With another scream, ripped deep from within her, she grabbed it and dragged it out. With only seconds remaining, she turned her face to the stone wall so that his face would not be the last thing she saw. 
Barnabas stood, looking down at her body. 
"It’s not enough, is it?" Shinigami asked. 
"It’s never enough", Barnabas told her. "I stopped believing in heaven and hell long ago—at least, as they’re spoken about in the religious texts. But I can see why the thought of them has endured. The idea that she could do so much wrong and just die, not living more than a moment of the terror and pain she inflicted, is an injustice I do not want to let go."

From The Vigilante Chronicles by Natalie Grey and Michael Anderle

no. 666

“Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”

A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979

no. 665

“No voting on who gets to be people.”

N. K. Jemisin

no. 664

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” 

George Orwell

no. 663

“Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, & independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.” 

Harry Truman, 1952

no. 662

“I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” 

Clarence Darrow

no. 661

“Imagine if the media covered a hurricane not by describing its effects (damage done, lives lost, injuries inflicted) but by bringing on two people to debate whether there really was a hurricane.

That’s how they cover racism, and apparently anti-semitism too. The effects can never be discussed; we can only debate if it happened.”

Gin and Tacos on Facebook

no. 660

"Life is not a ledger. Your sins can't be paid off through good deeds. Your good deeds are not cancelled by your sins."

Cory Doctorow

no. 659

"The fact that some people still have consciences isn’t an aggression against people who have sold theirs away."

A. R. Moxon

no. 658

"Religion is first and foremost about worship of a being referred to as God, or Allah, or some other name, where said God has created man in his image. It’s a set of rules to live by, created around a social gathering where you worship. It gives people structure, organization, and a social group of people who all believe the same. But worship is directed through the church, and deviation from how the church says things should be is punished. They preach love, and practice intolerance of everyone who does not belong to their faith, usually without being aware of it."

From Timothy Ellis' book Hero At The Gates

no. 657

“20 years ago if you had a CCTV watching you while you ate your dinner, it was because you were in a supermax prison, and today it’s because you’ve got Apple Home or Google Home or Alexa in your kitchen.”

Cory Doctorow

no. 656

"I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do." 

James Baldwin

no. 655

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

  James Baldwin

no. 654

“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.” 

David Brin

no. 653

“English isn’t a language, it’s three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat.”

des-zimbits

no. 652

"If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire"

George Monbiot

no. 651

'And they always find a rational explanation for the supposedly supernatural events, but nobody ever mentions the talking dog. '' Hmmm. Egyptian exhibition possibly haunted by a mummy? Let's investigate!" You're having a conversation about this with a Great Dane and he is actively disagreeing with you! Deal with the issue at hand!'

A character in Dave Turner’s book “How To Be Dead” discussing “Scooby-Doo”