David

“Socialization is not primarily cognitive. We are not persuaded rationally not to pee in the living room; we are required not to. We then rationalize and obey this rule even when no authority figure lurks to enforce it.”
― James W Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“We desperately need nonpartisan pro-democracy reforms to make our government responsive to the people's will. But when one party has abandoned its commitment to democracy, any reform effort inherently looks partisan.”
― Leah Greenberg, We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump

“Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“There were some obvious reasons why women responded to 2016 with righteous outrage: they'd watched an extraordinarily qualified female presidential candidate lose to an extraordinarily unqualified, hateful charlatan with a self-confessed record of sexual assault. But it wasn't just that.”
― Leah Greenberg, We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump