Notably Quotable: “Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that …”

“Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.”
— Werner Herzog  tweet
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“I decided not to dwell on it, and just do my job.”

— ProPublica, A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It’s Really Like to Guard Migrant Children.

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I used to work in US intelligence advising presidents on risk. The biggest threat to our country today is the Republican Party.”

— Paul Nailer, The Independent (7/18/19)

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“We need to go to the future,” she says. “Why is he so popular? I have no idea. He’s like a corporate Democrat from Delaware, which is like the corporate headquarters of everything.”
— Allegra Dengler, a Democratic activist from Westchester County, N.Y., Why Progressives Think Joe Biden Is Not ‘Electable’.
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“As Trump’s polling numbers continue to improve and the likelihood of his winning in 2020 increases daily, the Democrats must empower a master storyteller of their own. Will this be the familiar in the form of Joe Biden? Or instead a new and more exciting voice? The Democrats must choose correctly. Time is running out.”

— By Chauncey Devega,Trump the storyteller: His gift for narrative is why he may win again

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“Trump hates immigrants. He hates people of color. He hates worker rights. He hates journalists, and scientists, and educators. He hates democracy. He must be removed from office. For I do not think that constitutional democracy can survive another four years of his awfulness.”

— Jeffrey C. Isaac, Trump’s Latest Tweets Are Not Just Racist, But Part of a Broader Reactionary Attack on the Left

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“Arnold Toynbee says, “When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable.”

— Arnold Toynbee

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