"The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American Revolution,
will occurr when government falls into the hands of the lending
institutions and moneyed incorporations."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I am not, nor have ever been, in favor of bringing about in any
way the social and political equality of the white and black
races...(nor) of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor
qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white
people..."
- Abe Lincoln during 1858 run for U. S. Senate
"In every generation there are those who want to rule well - but
they mean to rule. They promise to be good masters - but they
mean to be masters."
- Daniel Webster
"Capitalism doesn't have errors, it is the error."
- Revolutionaerer Aufbau Schweiz (Revolutionary Erection Switzerland)
"The strength of our institutions may depend upon this case,
because there is only one step beyond republicanism-that is
Anarchy. See that we never take that step, and let us stand
today as we have stood for years, firmly planted on the laws
of our country."
- State's Prosecution Julius Grinnel; opening remarks at
Haymarket Trial
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or
treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always
stirring up some war or other in order that the people may
require a leader."
- Plato
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
understanding."
- Albert Einstein
"I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive
things that my health allows me to do might be pointed towards
helping the Revolution, the only real reason for living."
- Frida Kahlo
"A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the
great sense, and men, serve the state with their
consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most
part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it."
- Henry David Thoreau, from "Civil Disobedience"
"The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man, and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels."
- Ishmael, in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie
"To say that we are knocking on the doors of magic is only to
acknowledge our own lack of belief in what we are actually
capable of through our own instrumentation, the sensory
body. What has been demonstrated by shamans and wizards, yogis
and spiritual masters, is-after all-everyone's evolutionary
birthright."
- Jose Arguelles, in The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond
Technology
"I will subject you to the yoke and the obedience of the Church and his majesty. I will take your women and children and make them slaves. The deaths and injuries that you will receive from here on out will be your own fault and not that of his majesty nor of the gentlemen that accompany me."
- The Requirements, as read by Columbus to the natives of the "Americas."
"Somewhere there's a reason why things go like they do
Somewhere there's a reason why some things just fall through
We don't always see them for what the reall are
But I know there's a reason, just can't see it from this far"
- Megadeth, from I Thought I knew It All
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is
man's original virtue."
- Oscar Wilde
"Wars not make one great."
- Yoda, to Luke, in The Empire Strikes Back
"Fear not death, for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The more you increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people."
- Noam Chomsky
"All things really great and inspiring are created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
- Albert Einstein
"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
- Yoda, to Luke, in The Empire Strikes Back
"And the sign says 'long-haired freaky people need not apply'
So I stuck my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said 'You look like a fine upstanding young man, yes you do'
So I took off my hat and said 'Imagine that, hah, me working for you'
Signs, signs, everywhere signs
Blocking up the scenery, breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the signs"
- "Signs," cover by Tesla, originally done by...?
"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."
- Shaka Sankofa, murdered by the State of Texas on June 22, 2000
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
- Emma Goldman
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. You cannot simultaneously prepare for and prevent (nuclear) war."
- Albert Einstein
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Political power poisons the blood and muddies thought."
- Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN
"It is better to die on my feet...than to continue living on my knees."
- Emiliano Zapata
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