Quotes

"The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed." -- Simone de Beauvoir

Links:

1. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Simone-de-Beauvoir
2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/
3. https://www.biography.com/scholars-educators/simone-de-beauvoir

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - JFK

“If you walk through life and don't help anybody, you haven't had much of a life” ― Fred Hampton

Links:

1. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fred-Hampton
2. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/2/9/22267037/fred-hampton-black-panther-chicago-life-death-legacy
3. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/12/03/in-1969-charismatic-black-panthers-leader-fred-hampton-was-killed-in-a-hail-of-gunfire-50-years-later-the-fight-against-police-brutality-continues/
4. https://digitalchicagohistory.org/exhibits/show/fred-hampton-50th/who-was-fred-hampton-
5. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hampton-fred-1948-1969/
6. https://www.biography.com/activists/a45988576/fred-hampton
7. https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/individuals/fred-hampton

This quote popped up the other day, and I just wanted to share it. With everything going on in the world right now, and especially in my country personally, I can't help but wonder why I have always strove to be good and to do my best for not only myself, but everyone I have ever met. Maybe when I'm lying there dying from whatever is to come, I will fully regret being a "good" person.

"Right and wrong is a very different standard than legal and illegal. The law is no substitute for morality." -- Edward Snowden

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." --Harry S. Truman

>United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”^[[1] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/602829]

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy

"Imperialism and fascism are two sides of the same coin; one is the side that faces outward, and the other is the side that faces inward." -- Butch Ware

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” ― Frederick Douglass

“I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.” – W.E.B. DuBois (1956)

"When two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one."