The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
Victor Hugo
December 13, 2020
Two things I want you to imagine: 1) The media reaction if Victoria had made a mistake and allowed international arrivals fly elsewhere without quarantine. 2) The media reaction if the two people who flew to Melbourne avoiding quarantine had been black.
Claire Coleman
December 6, 2020
Republicans think that children being slaughtered in their classrooms with weapons of war is the cost of freedom but that wearing a mask to save lives during a pandemic is too high a price to pay.
Bradley Whitford
December 3, 2020
The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
Toni Morrison
November 29, 2020
Call me a radical lefty if you'd like, but I refuse to accept a system that enables Jeff Bezos to grow his wealth by $66,000,000,000 in 5 months — during a pandemic that's left 40,000,000 Americans on the brink of eviction.
Robert Reich
November 28, 2020
Now that the stock market has reached an all time high, even as millions of Americans are in bread lines trying to fend off starvation during a plague, perhaps more people will finally get it that the stock market is not the economy.
Bill Palmer
November 26, 2020
If you’re a political journalist who has regular contact with people in power, and your analysis is always aligned with prevailing orthodoxy, then you’re not really a journalist, you’re a courtier.
Frankie Boyle
November 19, 2020
When you hear a conservative speak about 'western civilisation' what they really mean is 'white supremacy'.
Anonymous quote
November 15, 2020
When even the bankers of the ultra-rich, along with the bailiffs working diligently on their behalf, are panicking about excessive inequality, it becomes hard to say our world is morally defensible.
Yanis Varoufakis
November 7, 2020
Hypocrisy is defined by a national government rushing to accept the global accolades for most effective management of COVID-19 while ignoring its clear responsibilities for quarantine and aged care, and bagging and only minimally supporting a key state in carrying the load.
