QUOTES: Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H.G. Wells, The Outline of History We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution, were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a persons duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it. - Ernest Hemingway Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. - William Mather Lewis Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day. - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We cant get there obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We cant get there kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isnt disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth. Richard Grossman Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. - Steve Jobs Dr. King didnt get famous giving a speech that said,I have a complaint. Its time for us to start dreaming again and invite the country to dream with us. We dont have any throw away species, nations, or children. Van Jones We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values...when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. - Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967 The debate hers isnt only how to protect the country. Its how to protect our values.. - If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America--even those designated as unlawful enemy combatants. If you make this exception the whole Constitution crumbles.: Alberto J. Mora, former Navy General Counsel - Source: Feb. 27, 2006 issue of The New Yorker, entitled The Memo. It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the presidents say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at OHare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says hes connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. : Laurence Tribe - Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard University - Source: interview on ABCs Nightline In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. - Michael Jackson In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. We cannot achieve world peace without first achieving peace within ourselves... Inner peace. In an atmosphere of hatred, anger, competition, violence, no lasting peace can be achieved. These negative and destructive forces must be overcome by compassion, love and altruism. The XIVth Dalai Lama. What no one seemed to notice. . . was the ever widening gap. . .between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway . . . (it) gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about . . .and kept us so busy with continuous changes and crises and so fascinated . . . by the machinations of the national enemies, without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. . . - Milton Mayer - They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933-45 Well know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. - William Casey -, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981) It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them. -Adolph Hitler Claim everything, explain nothing, deny everything - Senator Prescott Bush - 1966 interview for Columbia Universitys oral history project on the Eisenhower administration.
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