I have a living document that is over 100 pages of quotes which I am working from to make these. Some I have no clue where I came across the quote. This one is one such quote. It’s apparently from the book The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed. I am constantly adding to it from what I read and listen to. That being said, I know very little about Barbara Ehrenreich's life and have no catchy story behind the image.
No matter what, this statement I endorse 100%.
I’m way behind on getting this posted so to make my self-imposed deadline, I am not going to add much.
I have spent part of the day arguing about watching the narration behind the art. This goes to all narration everywhere. Typically, those who wrap themselves in the flag, like Donald Trump and the Republican party are scoundrels. They do not fight for the American people, they fight for private businesses at the expense of the American people. Our country’s heroes are all people who are dissenters, rebels, and hell-raisers; Thomas Paine, Eugene Debs, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, all the way to Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning are true patriots.
To wrap it up, I will leave this with the words of Henry A. Wallace:
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact… They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism…They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest.
Yeah, call me a hell-raiser and let me be a true patriot.
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