January 2011
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“[I’m telling you stories.] Trust me.”
– The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (via the-final-sentence)
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...”
– Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)
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“You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only…from human relationships. God has...”
– Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached...”
– Moon Palace, Paul Auster (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
What happens when 80 million Egyptians disappear? →
This is crazy stuff, but it will be so fascinating to see how it plays out!
Justice = Love: For those of you in the U.S. Who... →
afghanipoppy:
squashed:
Call your Congress people and urge them to publicly support the Egyptians’ right to self-determination and free expression.
Egypt is an important U.S. ally—and we do a lot to help Mubarak stay in power. Making it costly for the U.S. to back up the Egyptian…
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“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to...”
– PostBourgie (via glamaphonic) (via monkeyknifefight) (via somerset, meowsense)
orchestre:
duet - rachael yamagata & ray...
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“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion that if by...”
– H.W. Longfellow (via loveyourchaos)
Running Chicken: Human Rights Watch's World Report... →
kohenari:
Too many governments are accepting the rationalizations and subterfuges of repressive governments, replacing pressure to respect human rights with softer approaches such as private “dialogue” and “cooperation,” Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2011. Instead…
“The world isn’t split into good people and death eaters. We all got both light...”
– “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (Movie) (via quote-book)
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“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via tulletulle)
“God never intended for a group of people to live in superfluous, inordinate...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
‘The Least of These’ — Martin Luther King’s Advocacy for the Poor
(via caraobrien)
THESE ARE HARD TIMES FOR DREAMERS: 20... →
suzywire:
bulimic:
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul,…
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“Now it would seem, as a white man, I’m not personally injured by the failure of...”
– How the Bechdel Test could save the Oscars
This was published last year during Oscar season and I’m revisiting it because I don’t think I ever saw it on Tumblr but also because the critical lauding and Golden Globe wins (which I don’t consider critical lauding, har har) have made me circle back to...
10 Important Pictures That Shaped America @... →
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“Pointing out that men are privileged in no way denies that bad things happen to...”
– Barry Deutsch- The Male Privilege Checklist (via reelaroundthefountain)
(via tigersmilk)
Egyptian Muslims Throng in Thousands to Protect... →
almas88:
Thousands of Muslims honored a promise made by their leaders and showed up at Christmas Mass or at candlelight vigils outside Egyptian churches on Friday, offering their bodies as human shields against any acts of terrorists. The observances were tense, in view of the New Year’s Day bombing of a cathedral in Alexandria, which killed 21. The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates...
nataliekucken:
múm // we have a map of the...
Hundreds of thousands wait to vote in Sudan... →
Why do development efforts continue to fail? →
caraobrien:
Related to the Where Do Bad Ideas Come From? And Why Don’t They Go Away? article I posted yesterday:
Last summer in Sierra Leone, I met an American guy working on a justice access initiative. He was not your Ivy League bona fide development worker. He was brash; he didn’t use the empty but politically acceptable vocabulary. He had a haircut I’d never see in a major American...
