229 Quotes by Chris Hayes

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    Fanon would say that “colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.

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    We’re in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

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    To desecrate the dead is to humiliate the living, and humiliation may be the most powerful and most underappreciated force in human affairs. The angry citizen can shout, and the terrified citizen can lock the doors, or flee, or move, or arm himself. But the humiliated citizen can neither express her feelings nor respond to the offense. For it is in the nature of humiliation that it happens at the hands of someone with greater power:.

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    This is the central component of the white fear that sustains the Colony: the simple inability to recognize, deeply, fully totally, the humanity of those on the other side.

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    Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig’s blood.

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    There’s a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

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    The liberal theory of the causes of crime – that it was born of racism, segregation, oppression, poverty, and disinvestment – painted a picture of the problem that required a set of solutions far above what the local beat cops could provide.

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    According to statistics compiled by the Washington Post, in 2015 a full quarter of those shot and killed by police were suffering from mental illness.

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    Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush’s story yielded no tangible dividends.

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