Call your kin to come and sing: We the Ghor! Voices loud and standing proud We are the Ghor! .... Tight the weave and roll the sleeve We are the Ghor! #Andor #qotd

"Don't let nobody ever tell you you can't be Who you wanna be or who you wanna see ... So when it's dark, look on the bright side And when it rains, wait on the sunshine ... Don't complicate it Keep it simple Just work hard and be nice to people" -Michael Franti #qotd

"Goose-stepping morons ... should try *reading* books instead of *burning* them!" -Dr. Henry Jones Sr. -Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Resist, Rebel, Rebuild. -Daredevil #qotd

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you." -Terry Pratchett, Small Gods #qotd

"And all I can do is read a book to stay awake And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape" -No Rain, Blind Melon #qotd #booksky

"When they call the roll in the senate, the senators do not know whether to answer “present” or “not guilty”." -Theodore Roosevelt #qotd

“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” —Rosa Parks

"Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease." Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun

[The world is] never going to be perfect, so you just do the best you can, right? But when there’s a kid on the way, well, suddenly a man sees it different. He thinks: my kid’s going to have to grow up in this mess. Time to clean it up. Time to make it a Better World. -Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

There's something wrong with the world today I don't know what it is Something's wrong with our eyes We're seeing things in a different way And God knows it ain't his ... Aerosmith, Living on the edge

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. Mark Twain

"Freedom is not about having unshackled hands. Freedom is about having unshackled minds." Volodymyr Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine

“All my life people have told me how strong I am, like it’s the best thing I’ve got to offer. I know they mean it in all the ways—physically, emotionally, mentally—and I am. But I’m also tired ... I’m exhausted in all the ways I’m supposed to be strong.” ― Mindy McGinnis, Heroine

Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved. -Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost" -Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator.

"I'll open a dimensional doorway ... And send her to a place where even demons fear to tread. What is this evil place, you might be asking? ... It’s called - Florida." -Lucy (Lucifer) T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

"Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, ... , will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself." -Nicodemus -Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

"I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten." Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves #witcher

"It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back." -Thomas Jefferson #nokings

No king! No Queen! No Lords! No Masters! We will not be fooled again! "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!" -Nac Mac Feegles, The Wee Free Men #happypresidentsday #terrypratchett #discworld

"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of this country; and never to tolerate their violation by others." -Abraham Lincoln

"A thinking tyrant ... had a much harder job than a ruler raised to power by some idiot vote-yourself-rich system like democracy. At least he could tell the people he was their fault." -Terry Pratchett, Going Postal Don't let me detain you. #discworld #terrypratchett

This world could be fed, this world could be fun This should be love for everyone This world should be free, this world could be one We should bring love to our daughters and sons Love, love, love, love This could be heaven for everyone #Queen

We are not experiencing the best of times, [but] I am optimistic in the long run. A great man once said that the true symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle. It is the pendulum. And when the pendulum swings too far in one direction it will go back. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If Jesus was to preach [today] like he preached in Galillee, They would lay Jesus Christ in his grave. - Woody Guthrie, Jesus Christ

"Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive." -Terry Pratchett, Snuff

"Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on." -Stephen King, Bag of Bones

"A government should not mobilize an army out of anger, ... Act when it is beneficial to do so, desist if not. Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life." -Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong." -Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” – Frederick Douglass #Blackhistorymonth

"love's such an old-fashioned word And love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves This is our last dance ... This is ourselves Under pressure -David Bowie & Queen - Under Pressure #queen #davidbowie

" I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it." -Terry Pratchett #terrypratchett

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." -Maya Angelou

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King - Strength to Love, 1963.

"We can be the healing When you're feeling all alone We can be the reason To find the strength to carry on In a world that's so divided We shall overcome We can be the healing We can be the flower in the gun" The Flower - Michael Franti

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." -Terry Pratchett, Diggers

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 13:34-35

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Søren Kierkegaard

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed ... Against stupidity we are defenseless. ... reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

But listen up, my little sister, hold these worlds to you close Keep that kind heart kind, humankind are in need Never let this world make you bitter like me Because this world needs love, and love it leaks from you see? Sis, this world needs light and you're the brightest I see -Ren- Money Ties

“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.” —Elie Wiesel