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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead A reckoning is coming. I can feel it. At first, I could not see that it was possible. Our nation was...
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“Even when I am not strong, I am never weak.” Me Recently, my glorious middle daughter made me a healing pouch. She made a gorgeous, batik bag with a crocheted top and into it, she lovingly tucked stones, runes, herbs, affirmations, tiny figures and everything...
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The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back. Abigail Van Buren Yeah, Trump voters, it’s me again with another probable exercise in futility, but I am...
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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. Alveda King...
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The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense – the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put...
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They want me dead. They want to throw me into a heap with all people of color, Muslims, gay people and anybody else who doesn’t fit into their tiny, Judeo-Christian white, patriarchal world. Then they want to douse us with gasoline and watch our dead bodies burn.
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina Yeah, “covfefe” was pretty damned funny and gave us all a deliciously uproarious opportunity to troll the orange imposter. What sort of president tweets in the...
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If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by all means, be it. Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality I hear on a pretty frequent basis...
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe. Voltaire It’s true. The sun still rises in the east and sets in the west. The...
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