“Nobody has a right of self defense against this country, even if it intervenes across the ocean to impose by force, a government that the people of that country reject.” - Noam Chomsky, “Manufacturing Consent”

“You and I should live, as if you and i have never heard, of a you and an I.” - Rumi

“One of the few remaining things available and accessible to most people, to experience something that somebody made for you from start to finish, is to go to a restaurant and eat something — even if it’s a $2 taco from a taco truck.” - Samin Nosrat

“Better never means better for everyone… it always means worse, for some.” - Margaret Atwood

“Silence is pain that writing relieves.” - Richard Rhodes

“The most radical thing to do in a community like mine is to maintain your hope and maintain your softness.” - Mustafa the Poet

“What is the statute of limitations on resentment, on rage, on revenge?” - Omar El Akkad

“Some people are afforded precision in death, but not these. There is no accurate count of the murdered; there may never be.” - Omar El Akkad

“In the age of big data, many of us continue to be monitored and measured, but without the audible rumble of helicopters to which we can point. This doesn’t mean we no longer feel what it’s like to be a problem.” - @ruha9.bsky.social, Race After Technology 2019

"Chatbots don't make sense, they make words. Artificial Intelligence creates words devoid of thought, dead things to which we attribute meaning." - Leon Furze

“The diagnosis is terminal for all of us.” - Ryan Holiday

“The body is the purest, most primal tool for communicating. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a civilized adult. The body is our mother tongue, our mediator with the world long before we speak our first words.” - Esther Perel

“Look inwards as much as you look outwards. The truth will always be inside you, if you have the means of finding it. There’s a lot of truth that you carry, let it unfold because it takes attention.” - Dr. Gabor Mate

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" - Cicero

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Dr. Cornel West

“It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself... In truth, however, precisely nowhere does man today any longer encounter himself, i.e. his essence.” - Martin Heidegger

“You are clutching with both hands to this myth of you and I. Our whole brokenness is because of this.” - Rumi, translated by Omid Safi

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” - MLK Jr.

“We have a basic human desire to belong, and our competitive, commercial, individualistic society does not foster it. The disconnection of modern society has left many people hurting in ways they cannot make sense of, with injuries that cannot heal in isolation.” - Mariame Kaba

“The war that matters is the war against the imagination. All other wars are subsumned in it. The ultimate famine is the starvation of the imagination.” - Diane di Prima

“Do you love people more than you hate the system?” - Conscious Lee

“Nature isn’t part of our economic system. Economics is built on human productivity and innovation. This system says that Amazon is valued at tens of billions of dollars, while the Amazon rainforest, the greatest terrestrial ecosystem on the planet has no value until it is logged.” - David Suzuki

“It is human to be afraid of death, of unimaginable pain, and it’s another kind of humanity to transcend it.” - Sophie Mackintosh

“Trauma does not get remembered, it gets relived.” - Terence Real, “Us”

“A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.” - Nelson Mandela

“I thought the fall would kill me, it only made me real.” - Ocean Vuong

“Purpose is the essential dimension of meaning, and we are creatures of meaning and we need to know that we matter.” - Esther Perel

"So, can robots - and, by extension, other types of technologies - be racist? Of course they can. Robots, designed in a world drenched in racism, will find it nearly impossible to stay dry." - @ruha9.bsky.social

“Hope is a discipline. It’s less about how you feel and more about the practice of making a decision everyday that you’ll still put one foot in front of the other. It’s work to be hopeful. You actually have to put in energy and time.” - Mariame Kaba

“Histories are real, cultures are real, but countries were invented... Don’t ask me where I’m from, ask me where I’m a local.” - Taiye Selasi

“It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.” - Angela Y. Davis

“The mark of a civilized human is the ability to look at a column of numbers, and weep.” - Bertrand Russel

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." - Jeff Hammerbacher, Facebook Engineer

“People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success, only to find once they reach the top that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.” - Alan Rain via @rutgerbregman.com

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus

“Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path until one person, in one generation, has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to his ancestors and spares the children that follow.” - Terry Real

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - Karis Nemik, Star Wars Andor

"Placing the question of violence at the forefront almost inevitably serves to obscure the issues that are at the centre of struggles for justice." - Angela Davis

“I shed tears every morning in the bathroom mirror; Face to face with fate, had to face my fears.” - Killer Mike

“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” - Malcolm X

“Know that all of nature is but a magic theater, that the great Mother is the master magician, and that this whole world is peopled by her many parts.” - The Upanishads

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there.” - Job 1:21

“For the first hundred thousand years of humanity, creativity, nature, family, society, faith, communing with the divine — they were all interwoven. They were one… The creative impulse is a spiritual impulse.” - Rainn Wilson

“If you find yourself on the wrong train, get off at the next station.” - Japanese Proverb

"My career is not my career; my career is just mapping a trajectory of 'us'. This is where we are - at this point is where the Deli Boys exists at this point for all of us." - Poorna Jagannathan

“The rich are protected by the law but not bound by it while the rest are bound by the law but not protected by it.” - @profgalloway.com on “What Now” with @trevornoahtoday.bsky.social

“I dream of a world where truth shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.” - @neildegrassetyson.com

“You will never find the same person twice, not even in the same person.” - Mahmoud Darwish

“We’re not outnumbered, we’re out organized.” - Malcolm X

“Love without labour is just a feeling.” - haneens.ao via Instagram