QotD
"Listen, for people who haven't heard the facts about what's
been going on, on the election front, to suddenly encounter all the
evidence of what's really been happening at every level can be
staggering. Okay? So people can feel a little bit despairing about
it. That's the last thing in the world I want. Indeed, you know,
depression is only anger turned inward, as Freud told us. The
fact is that we're talking here about a fundamental right, no,
about the fundamental right. This is the right on which all
our other rights depend, as Tom Paine said. Nothing is more
important than this right. This is the right for which millions of
our forebears have shed their blood, have died. This is what keeps
us free. Only this. If we lose the right to pick our representatives
and to get rid of the government when we don't like it anymore, if
we don't have that right, if we don't have that power, we're as
good as slaves." -- Mark Crispin Miller,
2008-10-17, on the PBS television program, Bill Moyers
Journal [bold emphasis added by me; underline
emphasis represents vocal emphasis in original (but not indicated
in the web transcript)]