Saturday, August 8, 2009

Important Resources to Counter Ignorance and Polarization


Here is a very partial list of resources some of you may find helpful and may want to pass on to others. Peace ~ Molly


Center For American Progress: http://www.americanprogress.org/




The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/




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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
~ Robert M. Hutchins

There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future."
~ Noam Chomsky

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

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