Untitled (My Mother). A drawing by a child survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. From 'Witness to Genocide: The Children of Rwanda' Gallery. "...Their drawings may be unsettling, but they are images emblazoned on the minds of innocent children who witnessed the brutal slayings of their parents siblings and neighbors. For the children, these are the images that wake them in the middle of the night. Night after night. For the rest of us, these drawings are a reminder of what inevitably happens when the international community permits power-crazed leaders to foment genocidal violence." At PaPa iNk - The International Gallery of Children's Art.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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