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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
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The juxtaposition is so beautiful. And jarring.
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“Peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational…it should be a chief concern for all mankind” - Mos Def
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Source: Ron Paul’s book.
This from a doctor.
Does this apply to children, too? What a tremendous failure of a human being.

cannot possibly reblog this quote enough.

How long until he starts denying he wrote this one too?
-Jess
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The apocalypse is coming. You should buy a shirt. Message me if interested.
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“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn`t exist, for the artist doesn`t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect.”
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Playing off of Elizabeth Warren’s widely publicized quote about taxes (see picture above), the editors at The New Republic take the argument one step further, making a moral case for paying them.  Their defense of taxation hinges on two arguments. “The first is  distributional,” write the editors. “A civilized society recognizes  [that capitalism will create losers as well as winners, often because of  forces beyond any individual’s control] and vows to mitigate” that  problem. “The second reason we need taxes isn’t about the least  fortunate; it’s about public goods.” This is the point Warren made, and  the editors at TNR make the same point, asking, “Could Bill Gates have made his fortune without government-financed education and technology?”
Keep reading …
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