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The Death of Optimism

April 8, 2020 ebrightwing

I have bolstered my circle of family, friends and co-workers in the fight to maintain a positive outlook for American…

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“There’s no proof of anything,”  – President Donald Trump (2018)

“Hope requires action.” – President Barack Obama (2018)      <You choose!>

“If it’s really true that no one’s listening, why are they all so intent on making us shut up?” – Clementine Ford, Feminist

“You have to act as it were possible to radically transform the world.  And you have to do it all the time.” – Angela Davis, Political Activist and Author

Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: ‘We call BS!’
(https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/17/us/florida-student-emma-gonzalez-speech/index.html)

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” – Maggie Kuhn, Gray Panther

“We have a faith that says life is not to be worshipped.  It’s the quality of life that counts.” – Francie Emerick, Oregon Death with Dignity Exerciser

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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“Naive as it may sound, inoculating society against the antisocial requires, at bottom, persuading people of what is palpably true:  that society has value and everyone should contribute.” – Bruce Cannon Gibney, Author

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