247 ratings (3.69 avg)
8 reviews

Ron

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/BackstageBear

Ron’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (48)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (260)

Stats | More…

“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― John Adams , The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

tags: dogmatism, john-quincy-adams, superstition

82 likes

“There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.

But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.”
― Barack Obama

tags: l

16 likes

“At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.”
― George Clooney

tags: equal-rights, gay-rights, historical-perspective, political

308 likes

“I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”
― Bill Maher

tags: bible, bill-of-rights, christianity, constitution, politics, religion

372 likes

“I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe?”
― Cory Doctorow

27 likes

More of Ron’s quotes…