WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Trump pushes pogrom against Somali migrants in MN

“Some of them [are] joining Isis and spreading their extremist views all over our country and all over the world...Everybody’s reading about the disaster taking place in Minnesota. You don’t even have the right to talk about it.” -- Guardian

Freelance writer, Evelyn Nieves

Hillary Clinton’s Silence on Standing Rock Is a Moral Mistake—and a Political One -- The Nation

Mike Dukakis on MA charter cap vote

“It’s all part of a kind of movement to break up, to privatize, to essentially, I think, badly harm what is a very important relationship between people and their schools. I just do not understand the theory behind creating a whole new set of schools which are unconnected, in most cases, to their communities.” -- Boston Globe

Dennis Banks

AIM leader, Dennis Banks

Each day we walk to the site carrying our prayer ties to place them on the land near the digging and bulldozing sites. It is there that we meet the many police, sheriffs and their deputies, and the dogs that are trained to attack us. It is there we meet the young men in uniform, military forces of the same government that massacred our people at Sand Creek in 1864 and Wounded Knee in 1890, that also sent our sons and daughters to carry the same flag we fly today alongside our tribal nation flags, in World War I, World War II, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. -- San Francisco Chronicle 

Sen. Al Franken on Trump ad

 “I’m Jewish, so maybe I’m sensitive to it. But it clearly had an Elders of Zion feel to it, the international banking crisis conspiracy.” -- Guardian