[When t]he great social peril is darkness and ignorance. What then…is required? Light! Light in floods!
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| — | Lewis Hine Photohelios: Social Photography |
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Don’t get me wrong—happiness is a wonderful emotion and a state to be desired. But is that what our founders really intended to be the pursuit of our country and its people—to be happy?
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| — | Rick Santorum reflecting on our unalienable rights. (via officialssay) |
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The Occupy Wall Street movement is not just demanding change. It is also transforming how we, the 99%, see ourselves. The shame many of us felt when we couldn’t find a job, pay down our debts, or keep our home is being replaced by a political awakening. Millions now recognize that we are not to blame for a weak economy, for a subprime mortgage meltdown, or for a tax system that favors the wealthy but bankrupts the government. The 99% are coming to see that we are collateral damage in an all-out effort by the super-rich to get even richer.
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Sarah van Gelder, Excerpt From the Book This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine My students read this piece for today. We are considering the origins of social movements. I think this quote is particularly pithy, because it links private troubles with the public issues, and is therefore an exercise of the sociological imagination. |
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It’s a fine line between dwelling on our stuff and working things through. It’s an art form to distinguish the emoting that heals from the emoting that perpetuates unhealthy patterns.
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Jeff Brown (via venuschild) |
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What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
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Albert Einstein (via blua) (Source: sirmitchell) |
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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| — | Samuel Butler, Famous Quotes by Samuel Butler via The Happiness Project |
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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| — | E.B. White (via accidentalism) |
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
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| — | John Muir (via journalofanobody) |
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