Reads tagged with “politics”
Albert Einstein’s Little-Known Correspondence with W.E.B. Du Bois About Equality and Racial Justice
“Professor Einstein is not a mere mathematical mind. He is a living being, sympathetic with all human advance… and he hates race prejudice because as a Jew he knows what it is.”
Elie Wiesel’s Timely Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech on Human Rights and Our Shared Duty in Ending Injustice
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
The Only True and Durable Antidote to Violence: Composer Leonard Bernstein’s Moving Response to JFK’s Assassination
“This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.”
At Home with Themselves: Sage Sohier’s Moving Portraits of Same-Sex Couples in the 1980s
A tender, thoughtful lens on life and love in the margins.
John Dewey on War and Our Individual Role in Peace
“The present task of the constructive pacifist is to call attention away from the catchwords which so easily in wartime become the substitute for both facts and ideas back to realities.”
Haunting Illustrations for Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ Introduced by the Courageous Journalist Who Broke the Edward Snowden Story
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Margaret Mead on the Root of Racism and the Liability of Law Enforcement
“The more complex a society becomes, the more fully the law must take into account the diversity of the people who live in it… It is a matter in which the whole society is involved.”
Pablo Neruda’s Extraordinary Life, in an Illustrated Love Letter to Language
A swirling celebration of one of the greatest creative icons of the twentieth century.
Mark Twain on Racism, How Religion Is Used to Justify Injustice, and What His Mother Taught Him About Compassion
“She never used large words, but she had a natural gift for making small ones do effective work.”
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