“It is but equity…that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.” — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
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“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.” — Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923 …

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” — Thomas Jefferson …

“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.” – Wendell Phillips …

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” -– Jane Addams …

“Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one’s own way to the highest, to one’s own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one’s ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication” – Algernon Black …

“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police” -– Albert Einstein …

“The true tutors of late consumer capitalist society as measured by time are those who control the media monopolies, the aggressive content purveyors, shameless lords of omnipresent pixels, who capture sixty or seventy hours a week, fifty-two weeks a year, of children’s time and attention.” — Benjamin R. Barber “Consumed” …

“The Border Patrol got started up in 1924, the year I was born. That’s when Mexicans got to be fugitives on our own land. Whether you lived on this side or that side, all Mexicans got harassed. Sometimes the police would come knocking on your door and pull you out. It didn’t matter if you were born over here or not. When I went to fight in Germany I’d tell people, Here los Anglos are …

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“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” — Frederick Douglass …