Reads tagged with “politics”
Love Is Love: Maria Bello on Resisting the Labels We Are Given and Redefining Those We Give Ourselves
A courageous quest for nuance that liberates the different experiences of partnerships we have in the modern world.
Wendell Berry on the Grandeur of Small Places and the Perils of Our “Rugged Individualism”
“The extent of our knowledge will always be… the measure of the extent of our ignorance.”
The Illustrated Story of Harvey Milk, Humanitarian Martyr for Love
How a little boy with big ears grew up to hear the cry for social justice and answered it with a clarion call for equality in the kingdom of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Justice and the Four Steps to Successful Nonviolent Resistance
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Joan Didion on Hollywood’s Diversity Problem: A Masterpiece from 1968 That Could Have Been Written Today
“The public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth.”
JFK on Poetry, Power, and the Artist’s Role in Society: His Eulogy for Robert Frost, One of the Greatest Speeches of All Time
“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”
Change the Narrative, Change Your Destiny: How James Baldwin Read His Way from Harlem to the Literary Pantheon
“You’re playing the game according to somebody else’s rules, and you can’t win until you understand the rules and step out of that particular game, which is not, after all, worth playing.”
A Rap on Race: Margaret Mead and James Baldwin’s Forgotten Conversation about Forgiveness and the Difference Between Guilt and Responsibility
“We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope.”
Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer on Freedom and What Status Really Means for a Writer
“All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.”
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