John Whitehead: A Graduation Message for a Dark Age
"Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness."
"Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness."
"In one case, federal officials had turned over eight immigrant children to human traffickers."
"It was a banality of evil that characterized the mindsets of bureaucrats who worked in the Nazi governmental machinery. They were just enforcing the rules. It is that banality of evil that pervades the bureaucracy that enforces the U.S. federal war on drugs."
"Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the 'import' of labor — the in-migration of human beings."
"It appears that the only way not to be killed, according to Netanyahu, is to meekly accept imprisonment inside the prison of Gaza."
"The woman shot was between the ages of 16 and 24 and was shot 'in the head with a single gunshot.'"
"East Chicago officials knowingly built the elementary school and, later, the public housing complex on a polluted industrial brownfield, then ignored decades of warning signs that people in this predominantly black area of the city were being poisoned."
"Guess where the economically forgotten people live? The majority of these 'ALICE' households live in America’s largest cities."
"70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license; today, almost 1 in 3 American occupations requires a license."
"All of that [exculpatory] evidence was withheld by the same prosecutor who is now being hired to handle death penalty cases all over Louisiana."