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Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to...
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— PostBourgie (via katoleary) (via lavenderlines) (via notemily)
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We need always to be thinking and writing about [poverty], for if we are not...
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— Dorothy Day (via azspot)qu
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It is absurd to divide people into either good or bad. People are either...
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— Oscar Wilde
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April 2010
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Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not against a distinct...
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— Kavita Ramdas, in her TED Talk (via awritersruminations) (via viviopsis)
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We Stopped at Perfect Days
by Richard Brautigan
We stopped at perfect days and got out of the car. The wind glanced at her hair. It was as simple as that. I turned to say something—
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Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
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— William Shakespeare (via anim4l) (via funeral) (via undeadaffairs) (via neonloneliness)
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To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility...
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— Robert M. Pirsig
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from...
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— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via quote-book) (via julie-ism)
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Oklahoma passes law that protects doctors who lie...
A law passed on Tuesday in Oklahoma “protects doctors from being sued if they decide not to tell patients that their fetus has birth defects. Writes McKinley, “The intent of the bill is to prevent parents from later suing doctors who withhold information to try to influence them against having an abortion.”
I can’t believe this is real.
via NYTimes article
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The American people are sheep. They’re comfortable, rich, working....
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— Jack Kevorkian
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Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty...
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— Margo Paine (via tinyfactorygirl) (via grrrlstylenow) (via fleuri-anne) (via feministfury) (via rosietherioter) (via crustyriotgrrl) (via kimclit) (via rainbowcarnage) (via seanxvx) (via iisabelle)
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the...
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— Mark Twain (via bettylu) (via neonloneliness)
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Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the...