Samuel Son

writer, columnist, poet,

[Samuel Son @sonsamuel]

I just published Speaking Peace https://t.co/hEW0RNtxdF

[Samuel Son @sonsamuel]

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." —Lin Yutang via @momentumdash

[Samuel Son @sonsamuel]

"If you want to know your past look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future look into your present actions." —Chinese proverb via @momentumdash

[Samuel Son @sonsamuel]

"Fall in love with the process and the results will follow." —Bradley Whitford via @momentumdash

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[Samuel Son @sonsamuel]

@shelbeleh @poetrymagazine Rereading your essay “Astrology Speculum.” Simply stunning. Each sentence, well chiseled argument and poetical pleasure. Love this line: “The text is a portable technology for transmitting sounds into bodies generations apart. A Hebrew word is an archaic Cup Noodles, designed...

[Samuel Son @sonsamuel]

“The big insight to secrets, Jerrod has learned by living with secrets so long, is that secrets are best kept in plain sight. Everyone’s invested in keeping those secrets, even those hurt by them.” — @sonsamuel https://t.co/ObIlRoq1Kb

[Samuel Son @sonsamuel]

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[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

An attack on an Asian American is an attack on all of us.

Hate will not win.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Workers in Alabama – and all across America – are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. It’s a vitally important choice – one that should be made without intimidation or threats by employers.

Every worker should have a free and fair choice to join a union.

[Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz @ilyasahShabazz]

My father in Cairo weeks before he’d be assassinated at age 39. Despite following his every move an FBI informant called him, “a man of high moral character who neither smokes nor drinks.” He spoke truth to power, and we know that truth is timeless. Rest In Peace, Dad 2/21/1965🌟

[Deb Haaland @DebHaalandNM]

The Interior Department manages our public lands to make sure we protect them, honor them, & preserve them for future generations.

This was all Indigenous land, once — so it's ironic that we've never had a Native American Interior Secretary.

I would be honored to be the first.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Abolish the death penalty.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

On this day in 1865, the US adopted the 13th amendment and abolished slavery and indentured servitude — except as punishment for a crime. It's time to finish what we started and abolish unpaid prison labor.

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

“I’m here today because of social programs. Because of budgetary choices. Because of a government that saw my mother’s dignity, and gave her a chance. Now, it’s my honor to help shape those budgets and programs to keep lifting Americans up.” — Neera Tanden, OMB Director Nominee

[Samuel Son @sonsamuel]

@SadiqaReynolds Congrats!!

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

As a CEO, people often tell me to "keep politics out of business." If we did that, we'd still have:
•Slavery
•Child labor
•Women banned from the workplace
•Legal discrimination
•Standard 100-hour work week
•No minimum wage
•No health insurance
•No sick or vacation time

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Orlando Hall has been executed. Prayers go out tonight to all who loved him, & to the family of Lisa Rene.

The death penalty does not heal the wounds of violence. It only creates new wounds.

Let us renew our commitment to end the scourge of the death penalty, once & for all.