The Politics of Courage: May 2015

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Praise to Nebraska for Its Abolition of the Death Penalty

Facts about the racist, classist, cruel, erroneous, ineffective, costly and otherwise objectionable aspects of capital punishment in the United States are available here.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, ...unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
-Pres. Franklin Roosevelt

"We must replace the politics of fear with the politics of courage."
-Dr. Jill Stein

"A courageous vote is the only vote worthwhile." -Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"The most common way people give up their power is to think they have none." -Prof. Alice Walker

"If we don't fight hard enough for the things for which we stand, ...we have to recognize we don't really stand for them." -Sen. Paul Wellstone

"We can expect more, because we've had more." -Prof. Zephyr Teachout

"It is time we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship."
-Gen. Omar Bradley

"The time is always ripe to do right."
-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.