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I love quotes — they give us glimpses of the person quoted that you’ll never see in a photograph or a painting. They are the original “sound bites” — and because they are something the ‘quotee’ thought about, wrote down, and edited before you saw it, they are pithy and precise, striking words which illuminate an idea, then make it stick in your head.
Unlike the words caught by a reporter who just shoved a microphone in the face of some politician, celebrity or victim of disaster.
Here are some of the ones which struck me recently as very relevant to now:
And especially this one, which I posted in last Saturday’s WOW2 Women’s History, and Elenacarlena commented that THIS is why so many women (and men) marched:
And there is music too, with its special alchemy that takes it right into our hearts:
Whatever “Alternate Facts” may come from venomous tongues, the extraordinary marchers of last Saturday have sent a global message:
United We Stand.
Recommended reading:
Donald Trump's Authoritarian Politics of Memory
Exceptional article in the Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/...
