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“The younger people, party label — what is it that’s going to make them go for us? What is it we have to sell them? We hope we have to sell them prosperity but for the average guy, the prosperity is nil… And the people who really are well off hate our guts.”
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President John F. Kennedy, speaking of the upcoming 1964 election

BBC News - Final JFK White House recordings released

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“Children’s ability to roam has basically been destroyed. “Letting your child out to bike around the neighborhood is seen as terrifying now, even though by all measures, life is safer for kids today.”
— Danah Boyd, Microsoft’s Anthropoligist - Cracking Teenagers’ Online Codes - NYTimes.com
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“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff”
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Lee Atwater, George H.W. Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign manager, on how to use a “southern strategy” as quoted in “Southern Politics in the 1990s”

GOP campaign rhetoric raising racial concerns - Yahoo! News

[apologies for quoting the n-word, but this is happening again in the 2012 Republican primaries]

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“One reason for the mobility gap may be the depth of American poverty, which leaves poor children starting especially far behind. Another may be the unusually large premiums that American employers pay for college degrees. Since children generally follow their parents’ educational trajectory, that premium increases the importance of family background and stymies people with less schooling.”
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All jobs ought to be open to people with degrees “or equivalent skill & experience.”  This isn’t just a class issue; it’s a gender issue and a race issue as well.  — Ankhorite

“Harder for Americans to Rise from Lower Rungs” by Jason DeParle, published January 4, 2012

Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs - NYTimes.com

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“If King could see America now, I believe that he would be disappointed, and feel that his work was nowhere near done. He dreamed of a nation in which his children “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” But what we actually became is a nation that judges people not by the color of their skin — or at least not as much as in the past — but by the size of their paychecks. And in America, more than in most other wealthy nations, the size of your paycheck is strongly correlated with the size of your father’s paycheck.”
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Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman

January 15, 2012

How Fares the Dream? - NYTimes.com

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opcf: So cold…

opcf:

So cold…

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(via Scape-Seascapes / Sam Harris)

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theanimalblog: by Alaina Clune.

theanimalblog:

by Alaina Clune.


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Detail of Emile Venron’s “Starlight”

Detail of Emile Venron’s “Starlight”

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“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”
— White Oleander by Janet Fitch.  (via mllekeri)

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92mockingbirds: Autumn Fog (by Angélica Vis)

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Autumn Fog (by Angélica Vis)

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joncarling: ‘Neptune’s Revenge’ - Jon Carling 2011

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‘Neptune’s Revenge’ - Jon Carling 2011

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