I repost this quote every year about this time (because I can!). It's one of my favorites. Although this was written in 1941, Agee certainly could have been talking about today's Republican Party.
"A civilization which for any reason puts a human life at a disadvantage;
or a civilization which can exist only by putting human life at a
disadvantage; is worthy neither of the name nor of continuance. And a
human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued
from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this
should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much
more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the
scavengers of the deep sea."
James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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