"... [I]f we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Philosopher Karl Popper
What happens in the midterms won’t be about Republicans or Democrats, but whether people cast a vote for the continuation of suffering, or attempt to end the anguish that banning abortion has caused.*
“It’s not a win if this time next year we have Juneteenth off; politicians are saying “Black Lives Matter;” Lift Every Voice plays at NFL games, and Mississippi has a new flag, but...
"This whole assault on “woke culture” (which isn’t a thing) is really about fighting to breathe a last breath into a dinosaur that refuses to become extinct." - Alicia Garza
"The Right to Vote is the right to protect all the other rights” – Thomas Paine || “Doors of injustice are everywhere and we cannot stop knocking.” – Rep. Park Cannon
"We have to pass voting rights no matter what. How are you going to insist on protecting minority rights in the Senate while refusing to protect minority rights in the society?" -Sen. Raphael Warnock
“The people who are called on to be nonviolent are the people with the ability to do the least amount of damage.” -- Ta-Nehisi Coates on Ezra Klein’s podcast