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Praise Song For The Day

A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration

By Elizabeth Alexander December 2018
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Capitalism And The Wage System

The modern growth of monopolies in the shape of trusts, cartels, federations of employers and so on has greatly increased the power of the capitalist to levy toll on the community. This tendency will not cease of itself, but only through definite action on the part of those who do not profit by the capitalist regime.

By Bertrand Russell November 2018
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The Wandering Jew

There was once a Jew who had been wandering for hundreds of years in search of his death.

By David Slabotsky October 2018
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Where We Start

This is where we are right now. It’s a racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidate — particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.

By Barack Obama September 2018
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Two Mirrors Facing Each Other

One does not sit in order to become enlightened. One sits because, as the Buddha exclaimed at the moment of his awakening, one is enlightened as one is. The practice is simply a means of realizing this fact, which the ordinary, dualistic mind obscures.

By Lawrence Shainberg August 2018
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Intimacy With Fear

If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

By Pema Chödrön July 2018
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From Slavery To Freedom

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition.

By Frederick Douglass June 2018
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Calling Him Back From Layoff

I called a man today. After he said
hello and I said hello came a pause

By Bob Hicok May 2018
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The Brave Little Parrot

Long ago, a little gray parrot lived in a green forest. She was a happy bird and loved to fly. One day a dark storm hovered over the forest. Lightning flashed and the forest began to burn.

By Rafe Martin April 2018
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The World Of Love

If you are going to deal with the issue of health in the modern world, you are going to have to deal with much absurdity.

By Wendell Berry March 2018
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