Absolute

It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.
--Joseph Goebbels

Plus

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
--Upton Sinclair

The End

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
--Fredric Jameson

Practice

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
--Anne Lamott

Unbuild

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.
--Ursula K. Le Guin

Strange

How strange when an illusion dies, it's as though you've lost a child.
--Judy Garland

Measure

Every photograph is a measure of time. Each can be considered a metaphysical time-stamp of sorts.
--Richard Misrach

Purchase

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.
--David Foster Wallace

Genuine

When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discover

Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Audacity

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cynical

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Daybreak

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

WRONG

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
--Elie Wiesel

Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
--Winston Churchill

Equals

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
--Pema Chödrön

Antithetical

It is time for the Statue of Liberty to return to France. She has been here for well over 100 years, and an investigation into her status clearly will show she has no work visa, so she is clearly antithetical to everything the United States now stands for.
--Mala Clemys

Unless

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
--Edward R. Murrow

Travesty

And yet these people continue to either prop up or defend this sick travesty of a presidency.
--Michelle Goldberg

Future

The future is not a blank page; and neither is it an open book.
--Lewis Mumford

2018

If this were a trilogy, 2016 would be the explosively dramatic establishment of conflict. 2017 would be the lowest point, when all seems lost. And 2018 would be the redemption, the triumph snatched from defeat at the last moment, the victory over darkness. Here's to 2018.
--Catherynne Valente