Freedom

I'll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.
--Nina Simone

All One

We are all one--and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.
--Bayard Rustin

Ignorance

Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
--W.E.B. Du Bois

Concerned

Thanks for this article. I was starting to grow concerned that this might be a day I rolled out of bed and looked at the world through optimistic eyes.
--David Flores

Tired

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
--Rosa Parks

Memory

If you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited, you alter it irrevocably, remembering not the original impression left by experience but the last time you recalled it.
--Sally Mann

Time

There are three tenses or times: the present of past things, the present of present things, and the present of future things.
--St. Augustine

Story

When we reject a single story, when we realize there is never a single story about any place, we gain a kind of paradise.
--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Refugees

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees. But the arrival of the refugee hints that that may not be the case. Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders to people that all the comforts that we take for granted can be taken away in just a moment.
--Viet Thanh Nguyen

Karma

You look into Trump's eyes and you see the fear and confusion of a man who has just been told he's got stage-four cervical cancer. He is a super-villain in a world without heroes, a man so obnoxious and unhappy that karma may see him reincarnated as himself.
--Frankie Boyle

Earned

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned
By those that are not entirely beautiful.
--W. B. Yeats

Snowflakes

Republicans are the true snowflakes--they're all white, they're cold, and if you put enough of them together they'll shut down public schools.
--Ben Wexler

The Internet

There is no limit to the amount of misfortune a person can take in via the Internet, and there's no easy way to properly calibrate it--no guidebook for how to expand your heart to accommodate these simultaneous scales of human experience; no way to train your heart to separate the banal from the profound. Our ability to change things is not increasing at the same rate as our ability to know about them.
--Jia Tolentino

Persist

All creatures who persist are whole.
--Laurie Clements Lambeth

Censorship

To be effective, censorship in the digital era requires a reframing of the goals of censorship not as a total denial of access--difficult to achieve completely--but as a denial of attention, focus, and credibility.
--Zeynep Tufekci

Evil

For an act to be evil means that the destruction must be done simply for the hell of it--for the sheer obscene pleasure of the thing, rather than for some functional end.
--Terry Eagleton

How To

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to fear time: watch the news.
--Matt Haig

Action

Moral speculation was puny compared to moral action.
--Paul Kalanithi

Irony

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
--Frederick Douglass

Siege

Tyranny does not begin with violence; it begins with the first gesture of collaboration. Its most enduring crime is drawing decent men and women into its siege of the truth.
--Evan Osnos