Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by kennyc

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart." Molière (born this day, January 15, 1622), The Misanthrope

[gmw]

"You've got a good heart," she told him. "Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go." Then she shook her hread. "But mostly, it's not."

-- Neil Gaiman, "Neverwhere" (1996)

[astrangerhere]

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.

Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience. I think it is a mistake for people to consider disorganized action, mayhem, and attacks on other people and property as an extension of any kind of movement. It is not. It is simply an explosion of emotion. That's all. There is nothing constructive about it. It is destructive.

Representative John Lewis | Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Representative John Lewis | Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

[kennyc]

"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Representative John Lewis | Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

[orlok]

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by orlok

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire.

[covingtoncat73]

“Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn’t mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.”

― Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground

[kennyc]

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
- Neil Gaiman

[kennyc]

Happy Birthday Gretel Ehrlich!

“Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces

“The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold

“A sense of panic ensued, but panic is like fresh air. The world falls out from under us and we fly, we float, we skim mountains, and every draught we breathe is new. Exposed and raw, we are free to be lost , to ask questions. Otherwise we seize up and are paralyzed by self-righteousness, obsessed with our own perfection. If there is no death and regeneration, our virtues become empty shells”
― Gretel Ehrlich, A Match to the Heart

[kennyc]

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
- Lord Byron (Born 1/22/1788) Happy Birthday!

[covingtoncat73]

“Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past.”
― Paul Kearney, The Wolf in the Attic

[BenG]

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.

― Roger Angell, The Summer Game