“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood…War is hell.” — General William Tecumseh Sherman …

“You can’t believe the government – on anything. And you especially can’t believe them when they’re talking about important stuff.” — Gary Webb …

“If when I was set free someone had asked me: did they torture you a lot? I would have replied: Yes, for the whole of the three months… If I were asked the same question today, I would say that I’ve now lived through seven years of torture” — Miguel D’Agostino, Argentine torture survivor …

“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect” — June Jordan
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“More money is put into prison construction than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide” — Jonathan Kozol …

“The solidarity of others is our own defense” — Praxedis G. Guerrero, Puntos Rojos (1906) …

“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” — Angela Davis
Angela Davis
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“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ” — George Orwell …

“I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It’s quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.” –Eduardo Galeano …

“There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.” –- Sophocles …