Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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“If they give it to the rich they call it a subsidy; if they give it to the poor they call it a hand-out.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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One day we’ll choose another way. We’ll invest our $ in improving people’s lives, the greatest evils we need to tackle being hunger, poverty & lack of education. Humanitarian issues won’t be peripheral but will be where they belong: front & center in our hearts & in our policies.
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It’s not so much that we don’t have a voice as that we have chosen not to use it for so long. There has been a chronic political disengagement of a part of too many, particularly when it comes to voting. It will make a huge difference when we change that hopefully on November 3.
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That more outrage is expressed over “damaged property” than has been expressed over damaged lives embodies the moral vacuity of our society today. We’re told we don’t have the $ we’d need to assuage people’s suffering, yet how magically it appears if they dare to step out of line
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No. But on the other hand, it's the presence of the feds to begin with that is bringing it all to such a frenzy. Before they got there, the problem was being dissipated. Their presence has CAUSED more violence!
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That's the point. The police are indiscriminately arresting people, so there's no assurance of any kind that everyone being arrested is a "rioter."
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History absolutely reports otherwise. From the Indian Independence movement to the Women's Suffragette movement to the Civil Rights movement, peaceful protest changed the world.
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The taxpaying citizens of Portland are exactly who are out on the street every night protesting the presence of the federal agents. The people of Portland did not ask them to come, nor do they feel "protected" by their presence.
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Someone has asked that I denounce the violence. Happy to. nytimes.com/2020/07/25/opini…
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It's so exhausting to stay on top of what's happening; it's very tempting to just check out. But we can't allow the narrative to become one in which the unjustifiable is justified. We have to stay awake and not be lured into complacency. wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/07…
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On the level of the body all of us are different, but on the level of spirit all of us are one. As long as we’re only focused on our differences we’ll never experience our oneness, but once we realize our oneness we can celebrate and appreciate our differences.
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And yet they did not burn the courthouse down, because local law-enforcement was handling the problem. The crowds had dwindled. If the mayor had wanted federal help he could have asked for it. He didn’t, because it wasn’t needed. It has not helped; it has exacerbated the problem.
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Property damage is not a good thing and should be dealt with by local law-enforcement. The presence of the president’s troops is not diminishing property damage; it’s causing more of it. And all that money could have gone towards coronavirus protection and treatment.
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By the way, Sen. Cotton’s read on American history is ridiculous. Those who thought slavery was evil did not think it was necessary, and most of those who thought it was necessary tried to say it wasn’t evil.
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Evil is never “necessary.” What is “necessary” is that people stand up to it.
Cotton Says Slavery Was ‘Necessary Evil’ politicalwire.com/2020/07/26… via @politicalwire
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