Compassionate Resistance for 5/29/17
“As we near our City’s 300th anniversary, we must continue to find courage to stand up to hate and embrace justice and compassion.”
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“As we near our City’s 300th anniversary, we must continue to find courage to stand up to hate and embrace justice and compassion.”
“A day that they spend worrying about you is a day that they’re not ending Medicare, privatizing public schools, or preparing a Muslim registry.”
Yes, we’d all love Donald Trump, the president, to be presidential. But Donald Trump, the human being, is a bullying, ignorant child.
“I believe that every woman should have this same opportunity to decide if, when, and how to get pregnant on her own terms.”
“There has been a whole shift in the way we think about healthcare towards, at least, an implicit recognition of healthcare as a right.”
Now Manchester. While we pause and pray, let’s be clear what gets us here–and how to stop coming ’round again.
“The Onion has obtained hundreds of documents from an anonymous source within the White House.” And it’s as awesome as it sounds.
On Sunday, Ai Weiwei said people who live censored lives in China eventually become complicit in their own subjugation. Little did he know he was talking about Chicago, too.
“It’s about…slowing them down so they can’t take more people, and doing it so well that they never want to come back.”
“Most of us don’t know what it’s like not to be safe, what it’s like to be targeted.”