Good Quotes:

Silence is the language of God. Everything else is just a bad translation.

Rev. Thomas Keating

The politics of fear have brought us everything we were most afraid of.

Dr. Jill Stein

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 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 it.

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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