Incomprehensible

Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect.
--Sufjan Stevens

Salvation

In our mutual sincerity we might be able to show a road to the salvation of America's very soul.
--Malcolm X

Nowhere

It's only by going nowhere--by sitting still or letting my mind relax--that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.
--Pico Iyer

We Go High

Our motto is, when they go low, we go high.
--Michelle Obama

Slipping Away

Is the 21st century a Dark Age, compared to the 20th? Is the culture of modernity and enlightenment slipping away, in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world? Is this really an age of neo-primitivism and superstition?
--Michael Lind

Stories

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
--Garrison Keillor

Cope

Change is avalanching upon our heads and most people are grotesquely unprepared to cope with it.
--Alvin Toffler

Labor

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
--Abraham Lincoln

Notion

The notion that evil can be "destroyed" is an ethical version of a fool's errand.
--Steven Paulikas

At Risk

To rebut Black Lives Matter with "All Lives Matter" implies that all lives are equally at risk, and they're not.
--Cheryl Reeve (coach of the Minnesota Lynx, WNBA)

Wholeness

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness--mine, yours, ours--need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life.
--Parker Palmer

Despair

There is no love of life without despair of life.
--Albert Camus

Race

Race is the child of racism, not the father.
--Ta-Nehisi Coates

Take Sides

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
--Elie Wiesel

Borders

Closed borders are one of the world's greatest moral failings, but the opening of borders is the world's greatest economic opportunity.
--Alex Tabarrok (professor of economics, George Mason University)

Seeing

The art of seeing has to be learned.
--Marguerite Duras