Good Quotes:
Silence is the language of God. Everything else is just a bad translation.
Rev. Thomas Keating
I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.
Greta Thunberg
Fascism is a cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of supposed threats by leftist radicals, minorities and immigrants. He promises only he can save us.
Jason Stanley
The politics of fear have brought us everything we were most afraid of.
Dr. Jill Stein
“In this period of national crisis, hatred of the government is the surest path to self-destruction.”
Emmanuel Saez
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Warren Buffett
“To protest injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.”
Thurgood Marshall
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Teddy Roosevelt
The war parties do not represent us. Their wars are not for us. They take our wealth to serve war profiteers & global elites while our communities crumble. The time is now to build a party that puts people, planet & PEACE over profit.
@GreenPartyUS
Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed -- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.
1984 - George Orwell
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
Muhammad Ali
Capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxury to the classes. Call it what you may, call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God’s children.
Martin Luther King
Silence is betrayal.
MLK
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today—my own government.
—Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967 speech at Riverside Church, New York City
I have seen many demonstrations in the South, but I have never seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
after getting hit by a brick, rocks and bottles thrown by a white mob at a demonstration in Chicago, August 5, 1966
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
It’s not pessimism, brother, because this is the blues. We are blues people. The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. That’s different.
Cornel West
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
Mario Savio
12/2/64
Sproul Hall
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events… incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprise, awful miscalculations."
Winston Churchill
"Any people with contempt for their heritage have lost faith in themselves and no nation can long survive without pride in its traditions."
Winston Churchill
The problem with man is that we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
E. O. Wilson
Peace requires the establishment of Justice.
Reconciliation requires the discernment of Truth.
Servant Leadership School
Church of the Saviour
Washington, D. C.
You’re apt to find what you seek.
Peace Pilgrim
Never cooperate with evil.
Gandhi
Obama vs. Romney feels like a contest between two calculating centrists, fighting for the right to serve as figurehead atop a bloated state apparatus that will operate according to the same demented imperial logic irrespective of who wins the White House. - Glenn Greenwald
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Frederick Douglass
The arc of history does not bend toward justice through capitulation cast as compromise.
Drew Westen
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Begin Howard Zinn:
You can't be neutral on a moving train.
People who seem to have no power, working people, people of color, women; once they organize and protest and create national movements, then they have a power that no government can suppress.
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Voting is marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
End Howard Zinn
Socialism is a scare word they’ve hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.
Harry Truman 1952
I may die as one, but I will come back as millions.
Tupac Katari
Information is power. Information is life and death.
Amy Goodman
What is Life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Last words of Crowfoot
All life has a dimension of the unknown
It is a thing forever unfolding
It is important to consider the possibility that science may have defined life too small.
Anon
In a decaying society,
Art, if it is to be truthful,
Must also reflect decay.
Art must show the world as changeable
And help it to change.
Ernest Fischer
Art is not some optional form of entertainment, or pleasant luxury of civilized life.
It is an essential part of human consciousness and social being.
Ernest Fischer
In modern day abstract art, as in all things, there is always a superficial level of comprehension, and there is a deeper level.
Only those who can truly look within themselves are able to scratch past the surface of, and begin to recognize, the underlying meanings of other people and objects.
It takes courage to confront the not necessarily resolvable tension between the obvious and the hidden, elemental level. Most people don’t have what it takes.
Me
The story of life is quicker
Than the blink of an eye.
The story of love is hello and goodbye.
Until we meet again.
Jimi Hendrix
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