WHY

 

“In light of all the gun violence in the USA,

I’d prefer my democracy unleaded.”

 

~ Jayseth Guberman ~

 

Original photo of street art by arsene taken in Paris in June 2017.

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RESIST

 

“The strength and power of despotism

consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”

 

~ Thomas Paine ~

 

Original photo of street art by an anonymous artist taken in the Marais Quarter of Paris in June 2017.

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DONNIE DANGLES

 

“Terrorism will never cease in a country

where the so-called leaders are

criminals and terrorists in disguise.”

 

~ Michael Bassey Johnson ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of taken at the Trocadéro in Paris in May 2017.

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A TIME OF MOURNING

“Fascism is Capitalism in decay.”

 

~ Vladimir Lenin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in April 2017.

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THE NEXT THING

 

“Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt,

verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.”

“Where they burn books,

in the end they will also burn people.”

 

~ Heinrich Heine ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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MAID OF ORLÉANS

 

“I fear nothing but treachery.”

 

~ Jeanne d’Arc ~

 

Photo of Jeanne d’Arc’s statue and the moon taken in Orléans, France In April 2017.

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HURLING ITSELF AT THE CUNT

 

“…a whole society hurling itself at the cunt…”

 

~ Émil Zola ~

 

Digital image “Chatte” created in April 2017.

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RAMPARTS

 

“What is politics, after all,

but the compulsion to preside over property

and make other people’s decisions for them?”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo taken at the Bishop’s Palace in Wells, England in June 2007.

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BITTER STORM

 

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

 

~ Edward Abbey ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Erbenheim, Germany, in November 1985.

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NIGHTMARE

 

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

 

~ George Orwell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image of street art created from an original photo taken in Paris in August 2015.

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