Category Archives: Quotable Notables

Quotable: Neil Gaiman on “political correctness”

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Sabina Becker
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Quotable: Samantha Bee on the Orlando Massacre

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Sabina Becker

“Are you there, God? It’s me, Sam…”

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Quotable: Wanda Sykes on racism, “reverse racism”, and karma

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Sabina Becker
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Molly Ivins on polarizing politicians

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Worley Dervish adds: Molly Ivins was prescient in 1994 when she wrote this. Now our politicians less and less frequently treat each other as colleagues across the aisle or even as political opponents. Rather they treat opponents and their supporters … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Noam Chomsky on “freedom” under corporatism

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Sabina Becker
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Quotable: Pierre Trudeau on the dangers of conformity

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Sometimes I wonder why we don’t have a national identity…and then I remember this, and why it’s sometimes good not to have what others do.

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Quotable: Malcolm X on the connections between capitalism and racism

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Happy 91st Birthday to Malcolm X, born this day in 1925…and who was cut down far too young and with so much still to do.

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Quotable: Antonio Gramsci on truth

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Because reality has a socialist bias.

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Quotable: Hippolyte Havel on honoring the living

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Sabina Becker

“The honor and glory of a Mary Wollstonecraft or of a Louise Michel are not enhanced by the City Fathers of London or Paris naming a street after them — the living generation should be concerned with doing justice to … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Bertrand Russell on “liberty”

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Sabina Becker
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