by Pier Marton | Jul 22, 2013 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Food, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Native, Now, Politics, Quotes, Racism, US, Women, Youth
The fundamental conclusion I’ve reached after 79 years and a lot of work is that life is lottery. I don’t buy this argument that people are self-made; our opportunities are presented to us – how we resolve them, how we exploit them, how we respond to...
by Pier Marton | May 4, 2013 | Afri, Art, Asia, Highlights, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Music, Politics, Popular, Quotes, Sound, Travel
The multi-talented world hero, musician & ethnomusicologist. If you are not living on the edge, you’re taking too much room. B.B. He used to quote Sun Ra: The planet is asleep, and it’s the fault of musicians who are not true to themselves. [Ed.: I...
by Pier Marton | Jan 26, 2013 | Afri, History, Human Rights, Politics, Quotes, Site
(1857) Frederick Douglass, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress” a Wikipedia entry + More below. On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York, on the twenty-third anniversary of the event. Most...
by Pier Marton | Dec 23, 2012 | Antisemitism, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Politics, Quotes, Shoah
Who is a Jew? (1954) If it is not race, what then makes a Jew? Religion? I am an atheist. Jewish nationalism? I am an internationalist. In neither sense am I, therefore, a Jew. I am, however, a Jew by force of my unconditional solidarity with the persecuted and...
by Pier Marton | Dec 23, 2012 | Human Rights, Ideas, Podcasts(E), Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Wars
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell Face To Face (a Russell interview at age 90) http://youtu.be/OziPcicgmbw http://youtu.be/TedtMmUq8ig...
by Pier Marton | Dec 18, 2012 | Humor, Politics, Popular, Quotes
POLITICS MEANS I AM NOT TELLING YOU MY INTENTIONS. I am showing you an action that is causing a reaction from you while I am playing another chess piece over here. And together I will triangulate some secretive way where I WILL ACHIEVE POWER OVER YOU. I am not trying...
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