
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it,â€� she read out. “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
― Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
― Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
― I, Robot
― I, Robot

“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”
― Animal Liberation
― Animal Liberation

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