Reads tagged with “activism”
Shepard Fairey on Capitalism, Freedom, Selling Out, and What Makes Great Art
“I believe in capitalism with some checks to chill out the evil greedy element. Capitalism is a way for hard work to yield rewards.”
Eve Ensler on How Trauma Makes Us Leave Our Bodies and Disconnect from Ourselves
“Many of us have left our bodies — we’re not embodied creatures, we’re not living inside our own muscles and cells and sinews.”
May 9, 1933: Helen Keller’s Searing Letter to the Nazis About Censorship and the Inextinguishable Freedom of Ideas
“You can burn my books… but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.”
After Stonewall: The First-Ever Pride Parades, In Vintage Photos
“There were no openly gay policemen, public school teachers, doctors, or lawyers.”
The Feminine Mystique Half a Century Later
How Betty Friedan “pulled the trigger on history” and awakened women to the freedom to question what it means to live a full life.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams on How Your Choices Shape the World, Animated
“Every single thing you do is politics, because the interaction of human beings is politics writ large.”
Pete Seeger on Combinatorial Creativity, Originality, Equality, and the Art of Dot-Connecting
“All of us, we’re links in a chain. And if we do our job right, there will be many, many links to come.”
Edie Windsor, Patron Saint of Modern Love
“The more we see each other, the more we love what we see.”
Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking and the Shared Dignity of Giving and Receiving
“When we really see each other, we want to help each other.”
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