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Compassionate Resistance for 4/24/17
"A white young person being asked questions about her gender is not a new problem and it is not a problem that should be blamed on trans people or trans affirmative shifts in society or medicine."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/21/17
"It is my hope that we are not here to just make proclamations and state our shared beliefs. It's my hope we're here because we're ready to commit to action."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/20/17
"Paying taxes reaffirms my commitment to this country and proves that undocumented immigrants, like my family and me, are not the freeloaders Republicans make us out to be."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/19/17
"The world around me was constructed to, more or less, accommodate my faith. But many Muslim students cannot take for granted what I, as a Christian, was able to take for granted."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/18/17
"The data show that what's at stake are not cutting-edge, big-city provocateurs, but traditional artists who focus on such decidedly noncommercial traditions as crafts and mountain music."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/17/17
"The key is to learn to use the written word as a vehicle for empowerment, change and a reflection of the human condition."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/14/17
"Just as the threat is global, so is the resistance. And the resistance is working."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/13/17
"We’re not reporters; we’re just two brown guys trying to figure out how we can make a little bit of positive contribution in our community."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/12/17
"To be more precise, the number of Latino-owned businesses has grown an astounding 300 percent faster than the national average over the last decade."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/10/17
"I think the real and exciting part of this is that there’s an actual benefit growing from Trump’s stupidity."
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/7/17
"She’s a doctor like I’m a doctor. And I’m a pretty girl and she’s a pretty girl. See her pretty hair? And see her stethoscope?"
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Compassionate Resistance for 4/6/17
"Poetry opens up a conversation, a narrative of humanity for people to engage with that isn’t just based on fear."