Group items tagged nathan_winograd - Teleperra

shared by pepa garcía on 21 Apr 12 - No Cached

shared by pepa garcía on 18 Feb 13 - No Cached

Remember Henry Ford: “Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.”
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“Unless you have a roadmap or you have someone else you can look to and say, ‘Well, they did it, this is how they did it,’ it is hard to imagine what it could be like.”
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shared by pepa garcía on 03 Aug 10 - Cached

The goal was not to get promises and commitments that we would strive to do better as a society.
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The focus was always on changing the law to eliminate the ability to do otherwise, now and for all time.
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The suffrage movement wasn’t just seeking discretionary permission from elections officials to vote, an ability that could be taken away. Its goal was winning the right to vote, a right guaranteed in law.
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The civil rights movement wasn’t just seeking the discretionary ability to sit at the front of the bus or to eat at the same lunch counters or be given equal protection and equal opportunity. Its goal was winning the right to do so, a right guaranteed in law.
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Because without legal rights, one’s fate is contingent on who the election official is, who the restaurant owner is, who the mayor is, and in our case, who the shelter director is.
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