Reads tagged with “politics”
How Pioneering Firefighter Brenda Berkman Won Women’s Right to Heroism
“My uniform is emblematic of my philosophy that people should try to leave the world better than they found it.”
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900
A trailblazing effort “to give, in as systematic and compact a form as possible, the history and present condition of a large group of human beings.”
John Quincy Adams on Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, the Proper Aim of Ambition, and His Daily Routine
“The spark from Heaven is given to few — It is not to be obtained by intreaty or by toil.”
Albert Einstein on the Interconnectedness of Our Fates and Our Mightiest Counterforce Against Injustice
“There is [a] human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.”
Power and Tenderness: Robert Penn Warren on Democracy, Art, and the Integrity of the Self
“[Art] is the process by which… a society comes to understand itself, and by understanding, discover its possibilities of growth.”
An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Crisis as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
“The constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times.”
The Search for a New Humility: Václav Havel on Reclaiming Our Human Interconnectedness in a Globalized Yet Divided World
“Our respect for other people… can only grow from a humble respect for the cosmic order and from an awareness that we are a part of it… and that nothing of what we do is lost, but rather becomes part of the eternal memory of being.”
The Terror Within and the Evil Without: James Baldwin on Our Capacity for Transformation as Individuals and Nations
“It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within.”
The Universe in Verse 2017: Full Show
An evening of poetry celebrating great scientists and scientific discoveries, read by beloved artists, writers, and musicians.
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