Thursday, December 05, 2024

Quotes for Thursday, December 5th

 Good morning December 5 - Happy Thursday.

Here are some quotes that popped up on my Readwise stream this morning.


“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this—which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never—the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.”
– newyorker.com, Sunday Reading: Honoring Black History Month

"The New Deal and World War II transformed the U.S. economy from a market free-for-all into a system that was still capitalist, but with many of the rough edges sanded off."
– Paul Krugman, The Two Economists Who Fought Over How Free the Free Market Should Be

"That's actually the essence of authoritarianism and fascism: You arrange government so that you can be violent and corrupt, and get away with it."
– salon.com, “Empathy and Kindness Are for Weak People”: Why Trump Wants His MAGA Supporters to Be Cruel

" 'Fascism exists at the level of Stage One within all democratic countries—not excluding the United States. “Giving up free institutions," especially the freedoms of unpopular groups, is recurrently attractive to citizens of Western democracies, including some Americans. We know from tracing its path that fascism does not require a spectacular “march" on some capital to take root; seemingly anodyne decisions to tolerate lawless treatment of national “enemies" is enough.' "
– Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism

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