i am really stressed out. second year is exhausting.
so many things to learn in such a short time.
i want to sleep for a week.
or just curl up and hide from life.

off to class. get out early today- 12pm.
the more time to study with.

Days in history that we will regret as a nation for the rest of our existence ( Read more... )

Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican ( Read more... )

"In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent."

William Sloane Coffin
1967

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear - one, of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of un-reason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not ( Read more... )

"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our ( Read more... )

"Peoples, even of small countries, are powerful within their own borders; they have the means to resist foreign occupation successfully; military force will not lead them to change their minds; the issues are therefore essentially political, and in this contest, foreign invaders are fatally disadvantaged from the outset; if they are not willing to ( Read more... )

"it's about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad ( Read more... )

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iraq
israel
palestine
iran
north korea
lebanon
syria
india
pakistan
russia ...

the vacuum of adequate american leadership on the world stage
for the past 6 years is really beginning to rear its ugly head