"By thunders of white silence."

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“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

“Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

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“Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.”

“God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

“Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.”

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"We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. There is n…"

— Don Lemon

Journalism1966

#knowledge

"There were no sounds of men, here; only the whisperings of the world of nature, which men often called silence."

— Sean Russell

Literature1893–1940

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"White people are being denied the ability to organize in political organizations the way other groups do, free of harassment, to face the issues important to us."

— Jason Kessler

Politics1983

#philosophy