“After suffering years of frustration, many progressive activists are content merely to ‘make a statement’ instead of actually being heard, or to be heard rather than having influence, or to have influence instead of having decision-making power, or to seize decision-making power rather than creating a true democracy of empowered citizens.” — Randy Schutt, Inciting Democracy …

“To its critics on the political right, universal health care is an imposition on liberty that weakens individual initiative. But this is the classic bait-and-switch of modern conservatism – to make us forget that in a democracy, the government is merely an expression of our will and resources as a community.” — Jonathan Cohn from “Sick” …

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” — Gandhi …

“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given. But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life’s become extinct, the climate’s ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.” — Anton Chekhov …

“The prison industrial complex is a self perpetuating industry based on the subjugation of an increasing segment of our communities by racial and economic scapegoating.” — Kobutsu Malone …

“Decades of lies and intimidation could not make the Iraqi people love their oppressors or desire their own enslavement.” –- Excerpt from George W. Bush’s Mission Accomplished Speech in 2003. …

“The riot is the language of the unheard.” – Martin Luther King Jr. …

“Come on, America: I’m your piñata… I welcome any and all questions. Shake me enough, and I’ll give you the goods on my glorious race. But be careful: this piñata hits back.” — Gustavo Arellano, from his introduction to ¡Ask a Mexican! …

“The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.” –- Abraham Lincoln …

“How does one put together a democracy based on the concept of equality while running an economy with ever greater degrees of economic inequality?” — Lester Thurow …