“Some might say you are a sexually aggressive, racist, homophobe, misogynistic, cowardly, illiterate, waste of human skin …”
“Her duty as a theologian is to expand, not simply repeat.”
“Few conservative seniors will support ‘Medicare for all’ if it includes those people who haven’t ‘earned’ it or paid for it.”
“The privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich.”
“If you had suggested to me a decade ago, or even five years ago, that this is where we would be in the United States today — actively arguing over whether women should have access to contraception, I would simply not have believed you.”
“Beyond their slippery definitions of ‘abortion,’ such allies are also inclined to associate all forms of contraception with a sexually permissive culture that they deplore as corrosive of the proper ‘biblical’ patriarchy, and/or as a ‘secularist’ assault on the very legitimacy of religion.”
“Thank God for the good, humble, God-fearing men of the conservative movement who in their chivalry will save Eve from her death-dealing disobedient taste of the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge!”
“Their power is an illusion. They are dying. And we, to the degree that we can feel our freedom and act on it, will rise.”
“As bigotries are increasingly marginalized we also marginalize evidence of them. One way we do that is by trying to make them the exclusive property of people who are themselves already marginalized.”
“Do not under any circumstances breast feed, because breast feeding prevents women from releasing a hormone that is necessary for ovulation, thus leading to ‘abortion.'”
“There are lots of reasons the banks are having problems, but one reason is that people have no jobs and no money.”
“Wage theft is a pervasive and often unacknowledged crime in our radically unequal society.”
“The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out.”
“The dirtiest secret about the Ku Klux Klan in Orange County during the 1920s … is that one of the most-represented professions among their ranks were ministers.”
“‘False ranges’ usually don’t confuse readers, so on the range of things to worry about in writing, they rank somewhere below bad organization and somewhere above split infinitives.”
“The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do” streaming this week at NPR.org.
“One of the zookeepers took the baby chimpanzee home to live with her mastiff and her mastiff puppies. …”
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