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These quotes/tweets are listed alphabetically by author and then date published. They are included here because, in my opinion, they can spark important reflection. Click on a quote image for further discussion.
Chris Hedges Barack Obama Mike Pence Marco Rubio Bernie Sanders Rick Scott Donald Trump
CHRIS HEDGES
”The leading American institutions tasked with defending tolerance and liberty--from the mainstream churches to the great research universities, to the Democratic Party and the media--have failed the country.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 33.
”This is the awful paradox of tolerance. There arise moments when those who would destroy the tolerance that makes an open society possible should no longer be tolerated.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 33.
”Passivity in the face of the rise of the Christian Right threatens the democratic state. And the movement has targeted the last remaining obstacles to its systems of indoctrination, mounting a fierce campaign to defeat hate-crime legislation, fearing the courts could apply it to them as they spew hate talk over the radio, television and Internet.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 33.
”Despotic movements harness the power of modern communications to keep their followers locked in closed systems. If this long, steady poisoning of civil discourse within these closed information systems is not challenged, if this movement continues to teach neighbor to hate neighbor, if its followers remain convinced that cataclysmic violence offers a solution to their own ills and the ills of the world, civil society in America will collapse.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. pp. 33-34.
”The dominionist movement is the response of people trapped in a deformed, fragmented and disoriented culture that has become callous and unforgiving, a culture that has too often failed to provide the belonging, care and purpose that make life bearable, a culture that, as many in the movement like to say, has become "a culture of death.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 36.
”A group of religious utopians, with the sympathy and support of tens of millions of Americans, are slowly dismantling democratic institutions to establish a religious tyranny, the springboard to an American fascism.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 36.
”Those arrayed against American democracy are waiting for a moment to strike, a national crisis that will allow them to shred the Constitution in the name of national security and strength.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. pp. 201-202.
