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TCS: Once the World Was Perfect
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” ― Henry Louis Gates Jr, author of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross ________________ “If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are … Continue reading
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TCS: Awed By the Power of Words
Good Morning! ______________________________ “We live and breathe words …. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them …” – Cassandra Claire, ‘Clockwork Prince’ ________________ … Continue reading
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TCS: Oh to Walk My Way With Kindness
Good Morning! ______________________________ It is easier to oppose evil from the beginning than at the end.—Leonardo da Vinci ________________ “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you arenot proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that … Continue reading
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TCS: Everything That Can’t Be Owned
Good Morning! ______________________________ Poetry has never been the language of barriers,it’s always been the language of bridges.– Amanda Gorman ________________ “Once a government is committed to the principleof silencing the voice of opposition, it has only oneway to go, … Continue reading
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TCS: Choose Your Bread and Your Company
Good Morning! ______________________________ “If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if … Continue reading
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TCS: Anything Could Be Real … All the Frontiers End With a Question
Good Morning! ______________________________ “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” ― Emma Goldman ________________ “Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and … Continue reading
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TCS: The World of the Knowing
Good Morning! ______________________________ “The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” ― Tommy Smothers ________________ “Few people have to watch their country die. I have had that dubious privilege, and I can tell … Continue reading
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TCS: How I Became a Woman – Poems for Women’s History Month
Good Morning! ______________________________ “… this bullet had no innocence, did not wish anyone well, you can’t tell us otherwise by naming it mildly, this bullet was never the friend of life, should not be granted immunity by soft saying … Continue reading
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TCS: Sounds We Cannot Hear But Understand in Motion
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Banning things gives them more power and mystique than they had previously. Tell someone they can’t see something, and you can be sure as soon as you do they will be far more motivated to seek it … Continue reading
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