Notable Quotes

from Baltimore Jewish Home - 6-18-20

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

This loving refrain from Assata Shakur still rings true as I shelterin-place: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

- From an email to students by Stanford University’s dean of student affairs, quoting Assata Shakur who murdered a police officer in cold blood and is on America’s Most Wanted list

That would be like a nirvana, a utopia that we are nowhere close to getting to.

- New York City first lady Chirlane McCray talking to Time Magazine about totally getting rid of the police in New York

I have said many times that if called I will answer, but I have not received any calls.

- Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who has been publicly begging to be picked as Joe Biden’s running mate, when asked by Stephen Colbert whether she is being vetted by the Biden campaign

I know that when I’m asked the question, are you qualified, can you do this, that I’m not just answering for myself, I’m being asked the question because I don’t look like what people usually look like when they’re considered for these jobs. - Ibid.

Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions.

- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) father speaking in 1948 at the dedication of statues of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, when he was the mayor of Baltimore and long before his daughter claimed to be so offended by statues of those very same people

According to the numbers, social workers cause fewer deaths than cops and are less likely to exacerbate crisis situations with violence.

- The “logic” put forth in a Huffington Post article titled, “It’s Time To Defund The Police And Start Funding Social Workers”

I am wondering, where is the outrage for a fallen officer that also happens to be African-American?

- Angela Underwood-Jacobs, the sister of a federal officer who was killed last month in a drive-by shooting in California

I’ve shot a few 300’s, and one 800 series, and last season I clocked in at a 234 average.

- 16-year-old Jacob Gaddam, of California, who is legally blind and hearing impaired, talking about his bowling skills and his hopes of becoming a professional bowler, in an interview with a local TV station

One thing I’ve always told him is you’re going to have to learn how to live in this world. The world’s not going to stop and bend to you. - Jacob’s mother, in the same interview

He’s created his own sanctuary city in the basement of wherever he is, and he doesn’t come out.

-President Trump talking about his 2020 presidential rival, Joe Biden

I think some of the people sent back to the nursing homes with the virus — and nursing homes weren’t equipped to quarantine them from everyone else — and I think it had some difficult consequences.

- Former NY Gov. David Paterson (D) on AM 970 stating that Gov. Cuomo should admit his mistake and apologize

Russians are fond of quoting Sergei Dovlatov, a dissident Soviet writer who emigrated to the United States in 1979: “We continuously curse Comrade Stalin, and, naturally, with good reason. And yet I want to ask: who wrote four million denunciations?” It wasn’t the fearsome heads of Soviet secret police who did that, he said. It was ordinary people. Collective demonizations of prominent cultural figures were an integral part of the Soviet culture of denunciation that pervaded every workplace and apartment building.

– Izabella Tabarovsky in a Tablet article titled, “The American Soviet Mentality: Collective demonization invades our culture,” comparing the wokeness and cancel culture that is taking hold in the U.S. to what took place behind the Iron Curtain

In a collectivist culture, one hoped-for result of group condemnations is control – both over the target of abuse and the broader society. When sufficiently broad levels of society realize that the price of nonconformity is being publicly humiliated, expelled from the community of “people of goodwill” (another Soviet cliché) and cut off from sources of income, the powers that be need to work less hard to enforce the rules. - Ibid.

That was the hardest part for me; not getting to hug anyone for seven months and then coming back to Earth and still not being able to hug anyone.

- NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who returned to Earth on April 17 after spending 205 days in space, in an interview with the Times of Israel

You just killed your brand.

- Woke pundit Rick Wilson tweeting at Dominoes after a tweet from 2012 – eight years ago – was uncovered in which Dominoes thanks a customer for saying that they had good pizza (the woke mob is upset because that customer is now, coincidentally, Trump’s press secretary)

Welp. It’s unfortunate that thanking a customer for a compliment back in 2012 would be viewed as political. Guess that’s 2020 for ya. - Dominoes tweet in response

As of now, Black Lives Matter may be the single most powerful political party in the United States. Nobody says that out loud, but politicians understand it perfectly well. If nothing else, they understand power; they can smell it at great distances. And that’s why they’re lining up to bow before Black Lives Matter.

– Tucker Carlson, Fox News

Imagine a world where you are punished for questioning the behavior of the president or for insulting your local mayor. You probably can’t imagine that. It’s too bizarre. It’s un-American. But that’s where we are right now. Black Lives Matter has changed the rules. And here is their first new rule: No criticizing Black Lives Matter. You can be fired from your job if you disobey. Many Americans have been. - Ibid

I can tell you, my op-ed doesn’t meet The New York Times’ standards. It far exceeds their standards, which are normally full of left-wing, sophomoric drivel. And I find it amazing that in the last 24 hours, the editor of The New York Times and the publisher of The New York Times have both defended their decision to publish this op-ed, but in the face of the woke mob of woke kids that are in their newsroom, they tucked tail and they ran. They confessed and said they were going to go into reeducation camp, and they were going to cut the number of op-eds they run. And for that, I will apologize — or I will say to the world, you’re welcome for getting The New York Times to run less of the garbage that you normally see in their pages.

- Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reacting to The New York Times (which recently published an op-ed by the leader of the Taliban) apologizing for running an op-ed by him, a sitting U.S. senator

The homeless people we invited took away all the food at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. We need more food to keep the area operational. Please if possible bring vegan meat substitutes, fruits, oats, soy products, etc. – anything to help us eat.

– Tweet by one of the Seattle protesters who burnt a police precinct and took over six blocks, creating what they call “‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”

I’m really trying to process this. It’s like domestic terrorism – it’s unfair.

- Olympia, Washington, Mayor Cheryl Selby, who was an outspoken advocate for Black Lives Matter protesters, after Black Lives Matter protesters vandalized her own home

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