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When you have everything, the only luxury left is taking things away from others.
As far as he was concerned, if your faith was shaken by foul words or sex scenes, then you must not have had very much to begin with.
The self-righteous ones were always the biggest hypocrites.
Using fear to control people is about as old as time.”
The worst thing you could do as a parent, she thought, was to shield young women from the ugliness of the world—then blame them when they did not see it coming.
maybe even cut through all the red/blue bullshit that kept anything meaningful from getting done.
But the park was older than the Confederacy, and the man it honored was Andrew Jackson, the president of the United States who’d ordered the removal of all Native Americans east of the Mississippi—without a doubt one of the greatest crimes in American history.
What matters is never letting people tell you what to think. Don’t let them convince you that one way is right and another way wrong. Gather as much knowledge as you can, because information is power. And choosing how to use it is freedom. The more you know, the freer you will be.”
“Once Jesus arrived on the scene, all those Old Testament laws no longer applied. The New Testament tells us we’re supposed to follow Christ, not the old ways. And as far as I know, Jesus never said a damn thing about gay folks or barbecue. But he sure did talk a lot about love.”
They had to do whatever it took to keep future generations from living lives more fulfilling than their own.
“It’s hard to believe we live in a world where parents let their kids beat sex workers in Grand Theft Auto and then worry that a graphic novel about a nonbinary person is going to screw them up.”
