Reads tagged with “politics”
William Faulkner on What Sherwood Anderson Taught Him About Writing, the Artist’s Task, and Being an American
“To be a writer, one has first got to be what he is.”
Rachel Carson’s Brave and Prescient 1953 Letter Against the Government’s Assault on Science and Nature
“The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.”
Sociologist Anne Wortham on Authenticity, the Real Meaning of Individualism, and the Choice to Abstain from Activism
“A civilized society is one whose members expect that each will address at all times, as far as possible, the rational in man.”
Hannah Arendt on Jewishness, the Immigrant Plight for Identity, and the Meaning of “Refugee”
“Society has discovered discrimination as the great social weapon by which one may kill men without any bloodshed.”
John Steinbeck on Good and Evil, the Necessary Contradictions of the Human Nature, and Our Grounds for Lucid Hope
“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.”
Italo Calvino on Racial Justice: The Beloved Italian Writer’s Stirring Account of the Early Civil Rights Movement and His Encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr.
“What counts is what we are, and the way we deepen our relationship with the world and with others, a relationship that can be one of both love for all that exists and of desire for its transformation.”
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
An Anthem Against Silence: Amanda Palmer Reads Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Piercing and Prescient 1914 Protest Poem
“To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.”
Adrienne Rich Reads “What Kind of Times Are These”
“In times like these to have you listen at all, it’s necessary to talk about trees.”
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