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I am Happily Married Holistic Artist retired Avid book reader,want to become an #ARC #Reader , love music and ART . Blue dot in a Red state No Porn This time around we just can't be passive must seek solutions.

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JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

www.truantmemphis.com

I am rereading for the 2nd time the book "LittleThumb Sneezed"
It's a very enjoyable book to read.. I like how the author narrates LittleThumb story. #TruantMemphis is an excellent author.

Truant Memphis

Truant Delighted Memphis is an author, occasional performer, alter-ego, fictional character, adventurer, sloppy guitar player, martial artist, untrained image maker, child, sibling, husband and...

www.truantmemphis.com

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 1d

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

James Madison

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 1d

What makes someone American isn’t just blood or birth, but allegiance to our founding principles and faith in the idea that anyone—from anywhere—can write the next chapter of our story.

Barack Obama

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 1d

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

Noam Chomsky

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 1d

Where our the people ICE has snatched from #Chicago and other cities? Is this being tracked? #Missingpeople
#Tracked #WhereOurThey

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. ”
-- Howard Zinn

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism—the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.
-- Margaret Chase Smith

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.
-- Wendell Phillips

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
--Emmeline Pankhurst

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
-- Noam Chomsky

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
-- Mary McLeod Bethune

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”

Robin Williams, American comedian

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

“Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.”

Bob Marley, Jamaican singer

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

"We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity… and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice."

Cynthia McKinney, American politician and activist

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

“You cannot kill the truth. You cannot kill justice. You cannot kill what we are fighting for.”

Jean Dominique, Haitian democracy activist

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. If you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.”

Laverne Cox, American actress

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JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

Nelson Mandela, South African civil rights activist

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.” — Martin Luther King Jr., DoOneThing

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”

–George Eliot
#blueskyQuotes

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”

–Henry Louis Gate

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”

–Heinrich Heine

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime . . . .” — Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, dissenting Ginzberg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463 (1966)

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.’ " - David Mamet

JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 3d

#communities should come together to learn new skills.
#HelpingYourNeigbors Form a group and meet once a week so that you can plan out how everyone can help eachother. #Gardening #BlueskyCommunities
#HomeSchooling #Trades #Barter skills
Go back to the basics.