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January 2023 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of January for writers and readers

National Braille Literacy Month

Famous January Birthdays

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Tweet of the Week – January 22, 2022

Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker responding to a Tweet by Sen. Rand Paul

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Best Quotes of the Week – January 22, 2022

“The best thing to do when faced with voter suppression – and my friends, this is what voter suppression looks like – the best thing to defeat it is to go vote. The best thing to do is fight back.”

Dana DeBeauvoir, Travis County, Texas District Clerk, offering advice to voters

“Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump have all been closely involved in the transactions in question, so we won’t tolerate their attempts to evade testifying in this investigation.”

Letitia James, New York State Attorney General, in a statement released January 18 in which she alleges former President Donald Trump and his family inflated the value of his properties and misstated his personal worth in representations to lenders, insurance brokers and other players in his real estate empire

“History will not remember them kindly.”

Martin Luther King III, the son of the late civil rights leader, comparing Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to the White moderates his father wrote about during the civil rights battles of the 1950s and 1960s – who declared support for the goals of Black voting rights but not the direct actions or demonstrations that ultimately led to passage of landmark legislation

“COVID is real; COVID is a threat. But even more serious than COVID, as real and scary as it is, is to see thousands and thousands of thousands of voters not being able to vote, and it was on our watch. We refuse to stop. We refuse to turn around.”

Rev. Adolphus Lacey, a pastor in New York’s Brooklyn borough, announcing ongoing voter registration efforts despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic

“This case is a disaster for the rule of law and a grave disservice to women in Texas, who have a right to control their own bodies.  I will not stand by silently as a State continues to nullify this constitutional guarantee.  I dissent.”

Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Supreme Court Justice, condemning severe abortion restrictions established by the state of Texas

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Martin Luther King Day 2022

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Image: Paul Daniels

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Retro Quote – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Just as nonviolence exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, so must the infection and sickness of poverty be exposed and healed.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Tweets of the Week – January 23, 2021

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Martin Luther King Day 2021

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.; Stride Toward Freedom, 1958

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In Remembrance: September 11, 2001

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Image: “Fisherman at Sea”, JMW Turner

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Retro Quote – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Happy Martin Luther King Day

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“I have decided to stick with love.  Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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