Socialism is a scare world they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
-- Harry Truman, Oct. 10, 1952
I attended Grand Rapids Community College's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Diversity Lecture Series featuring keynote speaker Michael Eric Dyson virtually, via Zoom, last night. I have read two of Dyson's powerful, poignant books, Tears We Cannot Stop and What Truth Sounds Like, and am currently reading his latest release, Long Time Coming.
You can't use reason to convince anyone out of an argument that they didn't use reason to get into.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
-- Ulysses S. Grant
