"Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so many honest lives, and then with the insane nuclear arms race and confrontations."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Race Quotes #Tolerance Quotes #Insane Quotes

“Time apparently did nothing but blunt griefâ€™s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.”
“Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?”
“You never know what's going to happen with television these days.”
“I got through college realizing business was repugnant.”
“It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.”
“Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.”
“I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.”
“The more I bleed, the better I fight”

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