Wednesday, March 19, 2003
( 12:50 PM )
The South Rises Again (or: Now You Know How John Lennon Felt)
I have been searching around trying to find out exactly what it is the Dixie Chicks said that has been causing such a hubub. Here's what it was: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." Uh...I have been hearing people say that since 2000. Especially one very pithy Molly Ivans. This is just another example of what I don't understand about our country: people can pour so much effort into hating people who speak their mind or just generally hating a country for no good reason, but can't seem to form coherent opinions on WHY they harbor this hate. And now I hear that Walmart and Kmart are boycotting as well - and yet they seem to think this is okay.
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is an Owie to All"
- as modeled by
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"The point of revolution is to get away with it."
--Abbie Hoffman
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
--Che Guevara
"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep." - Gandhi
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
-F. Nietzche
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
-Epictetus
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
-Robert A. Heinlein
"Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place."
-Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
-US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
"Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent."
-Bruno Jasienski
"The phrase "working mother" is redundant."
-Jane Sellman
In Mama Solidarity
Maryam & Sofia - Baghdad, Iraq
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