Gabosegangwe Media Projects

19/09/2022

Essentials

"Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense." ~ George Bernard Shaw
Book: https://amzn.to/3Pr8YTE
Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw

19/09/2022

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
— George Bernard Shaw

15/09/2022

Essentials

/ Frederick Douglass /
"Born a slave, Frederick Douglass educated himself, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history."
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"Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. Douglass wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as a slave in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bo***ge and My Freedom."
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Born: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818, Cordova, Maryland, U.S.
Died: February 20, 1895 (aged 77–78), Washington, D.C, U.S.
Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bo***ge and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

15/09/2022

Essentials

“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”
― Stephen Hawking

13/09/2022

A remembrance of writer and moral force Barbara Ehrenreich

13/09/2022

Essentials

"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice."

-- Charles Bukowski

09/09/2022

Essentials

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.”

~Lawrence Ferlinghetti (After Khalil Ghibran) 2007

08/09/2022

Essentials

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Book: https://amzn.to/3TPgMlp
The Portable Nietzsche

04/09/2022

Essentials

Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)

"Every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step towards the diminution of war, every step towards better treatment of the coloured races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organised Churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organised in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. You may think that I am going too far when I say that that is still so. I do not think that I am."

— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)

Why I Am Not a Christian (1927) is an essay by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell. The ideas contained within were, and often still are, considered controversial, contentious and - to some of the religious - blasphemous.

31/08/2022

Essentials