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Day 3: From Margaret Atwood’s 2015 speech at West Point.
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January 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Day 28: William Gibson
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Source: Count Zero (1987)
February 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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November 16, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Day 31: Frank Herbert
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Source: Frank Herbert (1987) Chapterhouse: Dune
Power attracts pathological personalities. ~ Frank Herbert
February 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Day 25: Terry Pratchett
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What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. ~ Terry Pratchett
February 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Day 21: George Orwell
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ George Orwell
February 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Day 91: Octavia Butler
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Source: Parable of the Talents (1998)
In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn. ~ Octavia Butler.
April 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Day 55: Stephen King
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Source: (2011) 11/22/63
When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions. ~ Stephen King
March 15, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Day 17: James Baldwin
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Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ~ James Baldwin
February 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Day 52: Edward R. Murrow
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Source: March 9, 1954. See It Now.
No one man can terrorize a nation unless we are all his accomplices. ~ Edward R. Murrow
March 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Day 76: Stephen King
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Source: The Dead Zone (1979)
The crowd had that plump, righteous, and slightly constipated look that seems the exclusive province of businessmen who belong to the GOP. ~ Stephen King
April 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Day 59: Thomas Paine
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Source: The Rights of Man. (1791)
A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody. ~ Thomas Paine
March 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Day 29: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Source: Ursula K. Le Guin (2001) Tales from Earthsea.
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
February 18, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Day 90: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Source: The Dispossessed (1974)
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
April 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Day 47: Elie Wiesel
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Source: Nobel Prize speech (1986)
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ~ Elie Wiesel
March 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Day 22: Ray Bradbury
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But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. ~Ray Bradbury
February 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Day 84: George Orwell
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Source: 1984 (1949)
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. ~ George Orwell
April 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Day 41: Alice Walker
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Source: (1983). In Search of Our Mothers' gardens: Womanist Prose.
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. ~ Alice Walker
March 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Day 10: Albert Einstein
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert Einstein
January 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Day 35: Chuck Palahniuk
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Source: Lullaby (2002)
Maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
February 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Day 23: Mark Twain
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
February 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Vivid proof that words have power is the lengths that power goes to stifle words. #WritersResist
March 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Day 78: Daniel José Older
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Source: Last Shot (2018)
The empire’s greatest weapon is our silence. ~ Daniel José Older
April 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Day 35: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Source: The Lost World (1912)
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle.
February 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Day 12: Thomas Jefferson
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The worst circumstance is that the more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.—Thomas Jefferson.
January 31, 2025 at 8:25 AM