Quotes
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- We must never repeat the horrors of war again.
- It impressed on me the notion that you really need to analyse and understand what lies underneath the slogans.
- You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. Like a muscle, you can build it up, draw on it when you need it. In that process you will figure out who you really are—and you just might become the very best version of yourself
- If his power includes something as monstrously undemocratic as the ability to order a thermonuclear war, I ask you, who then is more of a dictator, the president of the United States or I?
- This is a life that got things done. Fidel knew how to interconnect different issues all over the world. It wasn’t just about Cuba, it was about the direction of the world.
- Classism is the number one enemy to democracy. And in America it is destroying the American dream. But we the people allow it. We allow it by being uninformed. By being uneducated. And that is what the 1% of the 1% want us to be. Ignorant to the facts.
- Economic inequality for all is what we get when we chose to drain the swimming pool for all rather than let black people swim.
- History will demand to know which side were you on. This is not a question of politics or party or even policy. This is a question about the very fundamentals of our beautiful experiment in a pluralistic democracy ruled by law.
- Selma is now because the struggle for justice is right now.
- What does it say about america if we’re going to inflict torture on people? It makes it hard for us to make the argument about moral superiority of our way of government and our way of life.
- The fundamental strategic question is: What will we not permit, no matter how it happens, no matter how legitimate it looks?
- We’re not going to do a replacement. If they repeal without a replacement, they will own it. Democrats will not then step up to the plate and come up with a half-baked solution that we will partially own. It’s all theirs.