WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Dick Gregory in Greenwood, Miss, April 2, 1963 after a voter registration protest.

Dick Gregory, R.I.P. 

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted. -- Chicago Defender

CTU's Brandon Johnson on IL Senate Bill1

We're not having the real conversation which should be about revenue...We have a taxing system that is unfair and unjust. -- Hitting Left 

Steve Bannon

"The Trump presidency is over." --Weekly Standard

Netanyahu's hand-picked Israeli minister, Ayoub Kara

“Due to the terrific relations with the U.S., we need to put the declarations about the Nazis in the proper proportion... Trump is the best U.S. leader Israel has ever had. His relations with the prime minister of Israel are wonderful, and after enduring the terrible years of Obama, Trump is the unquestioned leader of the free world, and we must not accept anyone harming him.” -- Jerusalem Post

Historian Eric Foner

 “Obviously, we have some pretty deep divisions along multiple lines—racial, ideological, rural versus urban...Whether they will lead to civil war, I doubt. We have strong gravitational forces that counteract what we’re seeing today... People are not debating the Civil War. They’re debating American society and race today.” -- New Yorker: Is America headed for a new kind of civil war?

Former WI Senator Russ Feingold

 Even if the white supremacists are condemned, even if the entire Republican party rises up in self-professed outrage at white supremacists, if voter suppression and other such racist policies survive, the white supremacists are winning. -- Guardian 

 Gen. Curtis LeMay wrote:

 “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population?” -- In “Strategic Air Warfare,” by Richard H. Kohn