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“Y no cogí la mano de mi padre moribundo. Nadie me enseñó a hacerlo. Me daba pánico hacerlo, me daba miedo, un miedo que iba agigantando mi soledad. El miedo a una mano, que acabó consintiendo la gran soledad en la que vivo.”

Book:Ordesa

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Ordesa

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“Cualquiera que haya sufrido una larga convalecencia sabe que la enfermedad nos sensibiliza. Tanto el cuerpo como la mente vuelven a ese estado de fragilidad que conocieron durante la niñez. Cuando uno permanece acostado durante un periodo considerable, la puerta, la silla, la mesita de noche recobran su dimensión verdadera.”

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Book:El huésped

Source: El huésped

“In the United States […] the two main business-dominated parties, with the support of the corporate community, have refused to reform laws that make it virtually impossible to create new political parties (that might appeal to non-business interests) and let them be effective. Although there is marked and frequently observed dissatisfaction with the Republicans and Democrats, electoral politics is one area where notions of competitions and free choice have little meaning. In some respects the caliber of debate and choice in neoliberal elections tends to be closer to that of the one-party communist state than that of a genuine democracy.”

Democracy Capitalism Republican Party Democratic Party Elections Neoliberalism Corporatism Democracy Gone Wrong

Book:Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

Source: Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

“Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.”

“We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.”

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Book:We Rise: Speeches by Inspirational Black Women

Source: We Rise: Speeches by Inspirational Black Women

“It's voting rights or it's the filibuster. It's LGBTQ+ rights or it's the filibuster. It's union rights or it's the filibuster. It's civil rights or it's the filibuster. It's our rights or it's the filibuster. The choice is easy. (3/18/2021 on Twitter)”

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Author:Cori Bush

“If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.”

Politics Democratic Party

Book:Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Source: Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

“The Democratic Party saves its ire for the Progressives while the Right projects Progressives onto the entire Democratic Party as the Socialist lunatic fringe.”

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Book:It’s Worth It: How to Talk To Your Right-Wing Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors

Source: It’s Worth It: How to Talk To Your Right-Wing Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors

“All the Democrats who voted for him [Clarence Thomas] were from the South, the opposite of what had happened in 1967, when Southern Democratic senators opposed [Thurgood] Marshall. By 1991, blacks had become a core constituency of Southern senators, and Democrats feared alienating them with a vote against Thomas.”

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Book:Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice

Source: Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice

“You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.”

Politics Democratic Party

Book:Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Source: Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

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