An Eclectic Collection

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.

- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine   (via foreignkings)

(Source: beautyisanillusion)

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

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Lyndon B. Johnson (via x0)

It’s sad that this hasn’t changed any.

(via recall-all-republicans-2012)

HELLO TEA PARTY AND A CERTAIN PERSON I KNOW

(via setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain)

And they do empty their own pockets just in case me and mine MIGHT get a penny from someplace.  And that’s why I don’t give a shit about their broke asses.

(via witchsistah)

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (via brashblacknonbeliever)

I need this quote right now.

(via knowledgeequalsblackpower)

Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes, you’d lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.

- Scully (via amisam)