Quotation of the Day: May 2018

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Quotation of the day for May 9, 2018

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Quotation of the Day for May 9, 2018

"West calls his struggle the right to be a "free thinker," and he is, indeed, championing a kind of freedom--a white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant; freedom to profit off a people in one moment and abandon them in the next; a Stand Your Ground freedom, freedom without responsibility, without hard memory; a Monticello without slavery, a Confederate freedom, the freedom of John C. Calhoun, not the freedom of Harriet Tubman, which calls you to risk your own; not the freedom of Nat Turner, which calls you to give even more, but a conqueror's freedom, freedom of the strong built on antipathy or indifference to the weak, the freedom of rape buttons, pussy grabbers, and fuck you anyway, bitch; freedom of oil and invisible wars, the freedom of suburbs drawn with red lines, the white freedom of Calabasas."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his essay "I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye."

[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
May 8, 2018

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Saturday, May 5, 2018

Quotation of the day for May 5, 2018

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Quotation of the Day for May 5, 2018

"The bourgeoisie has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous 'cash payment'. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation."

- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, perhaps predicting Facebook. Marx was born 200 years ago, on May 5, 1818.

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May 5, 2018

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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

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Quotation of the Day for May 1, 2018

My Will is easy to decide,

For there is nothing To divide

My kin don't need to fuss and moan--

"Moss does not cling to a rolling stone"

My body?--Oh!--If I could choose

I would want to ashes it reduce,

And let The merry breezes blow

My dust to where some flowers grow

Perhaps some fading flower then

Would come to life and bloom again

This is my Last and Final Will.--

Good Luck to All of you,

- Joe Hill, labour activist. He wrote this will on November 18, 1915, the day before being executed for a murder he had been framed for. Happy May Day!

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May 1, 2018

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