Nick Bromell

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Nick Bromell

Nick Bromell

@BromellNick

I teach and work on democracy one day at a time. Latest book: The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

UMASS Amherst Katılım Temmuz 2013
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Nancy Folbre@NFolbre·
New report makes great case for investing big in U.S. care infrastructure (kudos to my colleague Lenore Palladino, a co-author) tinyurl.com/y28zjg88
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John Tirman has an idea
John Tirman has an idea@JohnTirman·
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. -- E.B. White
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Nick Bromell@BromellNick·
Douglass continues: “In speaking of the soul of the nation I deal in no cant phraseology. I speak of that mysterious, invisible, impalpable something which underlies the life alike of individuals and of nations.”
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Nick Bromell@BromellNick·
Until I read this by Frederick Douglass: “Let me say one more word of the soul of the nation and the importance of keeping it sensitive and responsive to the claims of truth, justice, liberty, and progress.” Don’t you love “sensitive and responsive?”
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Nick Bromell@BromellNick·
Did you think the great John Lewis coined the phrase “the soul of the nation?” I did too until
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Danielle Allen@dsallentess·
@BromellNick adds Douglass to the roster of paradigm-changing political philosophers, focusing on his deep attunement to power, emphasis on human dignity, and belief in the necessity of activist democratic citizenship. This is the Douglass we need in our current moment of crisis.
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Nick Bromell@BromellNick·
#wakeUpDNC I hope we're all planning to get active in our state Democratic Party committees. The 2018 election is just 699 days away.
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