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  1. A quotation from Frederick Douglass

    What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

    Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
    Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #savagery #perspective #civilrights #cruelty #dishonesty #enslavement #fourthofjuly #holiday #hypocrisy #independence #injustice #insincerity #liberty #pretense #slavery

  2. Ukraine update from Dylan Cobelick: Outstanding coverage of Ukraine and a brutally honest overview of how the US is perceived by the rest of the world.

    Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and kick Trump in the nuts: medium.com/@dylan_combellick/u

    #ukraine #journalism #war #russia #terror #warcrimes #USA #israel #cruelty #greed #billionaires #corruption #losers #fail #change #resist #standUP

  3. A quotation from Robert Green Ingersoll

       Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell?
       Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #cruelty #damnation #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinepunishment #divinewrath #eternity #God #heaven #hell #punishment #universalism

  4. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    The doctrine of eternal pain is my trouble with this Christian religion. I reject it on account of its infinite heartlessness.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #cruelty #damnation #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinelaw #divineplan #divinepunishment #divinewill #divinewrath #eternalpunishment #heartlessness

  5. Freedom From Want (and From Trump)

    The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

    youtube.com/watch?v=kUgvph_CdJc

    > What does Thanksgiving really represent today?

    > Is our Divider-in-Chief actually bringing Americans closer together?
    Is the choice for Democrats really “woke” vs. economic populism?

    #Thankfulness #mindfulness #empathy #grace #humanity #history #prosperity

    vs.

    #TrumpVirus #narcissism #greed #BrainSpurs #cruelty #psychopathy #theft #emoluments #treason

    All "perfect really", like Sir.

  6. "A video released in February by Middle East Eye showed footage of an elated Israeli soldier sharing a TikTok video of himself driving a bulldozer into that hospital, chuckling as his digger crushed a cinderblock wall. “The hospital accidentally broke,” he said. Evidence of Israel’s crimes was by then accumulating, much of it provided by the IDF itself."
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    #News#Press #IsraelWarCrimes #WesternComplicity #StarvationAsWeapon
    #Cruelty #ChemicalWar
    counterpunch.org/2025/09/05/ga

  7. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting, as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. Under the influence of such hallucination, all common modes of reasoning are perverted, and all general principles are destroyed.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 222 (1820)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cruelty #divineinspiration #fanaticism #religion #religiouspersecution #holywar #self-delusion #self-righteousness #zealotry

  8. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting, as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. Under the influence of such hallucination, all common modes of reasoning are perverted, and all general principles are destroyed.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 222 (1820)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cruelty #divineinspiration #fanaticism #religion #religiouspersecution #holywar #self-delusion #self-righteousness #zealotry

  9. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting, as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. Under the influence of such hallucination, all common modes of reasoning are perverted, and all general principles are destroyed.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 222 (1820)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cruelty #divineinspiration #fanaticism #religion #religiouspersecution #holywar #self-delusion #self-righteousness #zealotry

  10. Two former #Mississippi #deputies wept in court Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison and condemned their #cruelty for breaking into a home with four other white officers and #torturing two Black men.
    U.S. District Judge Tom Lee sentenced Christian Dedmon, 29, to 40 years in prison and Daniel Opdyke, 28, to 17.5 years.
    Lee said Dedmon carried out the most 🔸“shocking, brutal and cruel attacks imaginable” 🔸against the two Black men, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, and against a white man during a traffic stop weeks earlier.
    Dedmon did not look at Jenkins and Parker as he apologized Wednesday, saying he’d never forgive himself for the pain he caused.
    Jenkins, who has trouble speaking after being 💥shot in the mouth 💥during the January 2023 attack, said in a statement read by his lawyer that Dedmon’s actions were the most depraved of any of those who attacked him

    apnews.com/article/mississippi