A diverse collection of political pieces reflecting this Democrat's intense frustration with the fringe right, and with those who blindly accept propaganda as truth.
posted by L.F. Gerace at 9:39 AM
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."- Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country." - RFK
"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." - RFK - - - June 5th, 1968
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary saftety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind." - Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." - Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap." - Kurt Vonnegut
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