"People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful."

-- Tim Wise

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“When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.”
“Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.”

Source : Vincent Bugliosi (2011). “Divinity of Doubt: The God Question”, p.258, Vanguard Press
“Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.”

Source : Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.”
“When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.”
“Donald Trump is going to go farther than other presidents have gone in terms of making us more dependent on ourselves energy-wise, and to create billions of dollars in revenue, millions of jobs, some people project, over time.”
“The simplest answer is to act.”

Source : "Everybody Sees the Ants". Book by A.S. King, 2011.
“We write to make sense of it all.”

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