“The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable serfs fought all the battles. The poor, ignorant serfs had been taught to revere their masters; to believe that when their masters declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to fall upon one another and to cut one another’s throats for the profit and glory of the lords and barons who held them in contempt.”
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Irrefragable
Adjective
Latin, 16th century
Not able to be refuted or disproved; indisputable.
Example: Voting is an irrefragable right to any democratic society.
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“The Church says their position has always been very plain. If children want to be around gay adults, they can become altar boys.”
Bill Maher, regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that the Roman Catholic Church can’t be forced to place foster children with same-sex couples
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“Strangely, some of the key people who participated on Jan. 6 have not been charged. Look at the document. The government calls those people unindicted co-conspirators. What does that mean? Well, it means that in potentially every single case, they were FBI operatives.”
Tucker Carlson, insinuating the FBI was part of the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill
“But these people are running around saying, ‘There is no vote fraud because, well, there’s no prosecutions.’ Well, have you gotten the gist of how hard it is to get a stinkin’ prosecution? Have you gotten that yet? So, it’s really hard to get one.”
Jay DeLancy, a former U.S. Air Force colonel and executive director of North Carolina’s Voter Integrity Project, lamenting his failed efforts to highlight voter fraud in the state
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“This day doesn’t just celebrate the past. It calls for action today.”
President Joe Biden, upon signing the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act on June 17
“You are courageous leaders and American patriots.”
Vice-President Kamala Harris, praising a group of Texas Democrats for walking out on a state legislative session in protest of a strict new voting bill
“Without a national standard for voting rights and voting reform, states are going to just chip away at the rights of voters state by state. Hopefully, this might inform minds and shape opinions when folks are in that Senate cloakroom wrestling over how they’re going to proceed with HR1 and HR4.”
Texas State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, about the Texas Democratic walk-out
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“One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
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Epigrammatic
Adjective
Latin, 17th century
Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
Example: Whether composing short stories or essays, I often rely upon my epigrammatic personality to get my point across.
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“I was informed by the past director of NASA that they have found that the moon’s orbit is changing slightly and so has the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Is there anything that the national Forest Service or [Bureau of Land Management] can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit or the Earth’s orbit around the sun? Obviously, that would have profound effects on our climate.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert, to Jennifer Eberlien, associate deputy chief of the U.S. Forest Service, during a congressional hearing on climate change
Eberlien responded, “I would have to follow up with you on that one, Mr. Gohmert.”
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