"There's no time," the Director said, "that I can see any assimilation of Gehenna into Alliance ... without the inclusion of humans who think at an angle. You can tape them. You can try to change them. If you don't understand what they are now, how do you understand them when they've come another hundred years, another two hundred on the same course?"
- Forty Thousand in Gehenna, C. J. Cherryh
The Mayor of San Diego realises that when push comes to shove, he really can't believe in separate but equal, and thus signs a resolution in support of same-sex marriage rights that he was expecting to veto until the moment it hit his desk.
The video of him explaining this brings tears to my eyes.
The world tends towards goodness.
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"Dw3t-Hthr" (Duat-Hether) is a title of various female temple officials in ancient Egypt. It means "Worshipper of Hathor" or "Adorer of Hathor".
For you and me, we hold these truths to be self-evident
For you and me, we'd elect each other president
For you and me
We might agree
But that's just us...
Reaching for the alien shore...
-- Rush, "Alien Shore"
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