“To change an oppressive social system, the only need is the existence of a man with a minimum of dignity.” – Augusto Cesar Sandino …

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.” – bell hooks …

“I won’t say I’m a communist, but I have been in the red all my life.” — Woody Guthrie …

“One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” — Martin Luther King Jr. (same quote used by Lt. Ehren Watada in his speech at the Veterans for Peace National Convention) …

“You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.” — Bobby Seale

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“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate” – Betrand Russell …

“Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.” — Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion …

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Gandhi. …

The History that Might Have Been

Christopher Columbus couldn’t discover America: he didn’t have a visa or even a passport.
Pedro Alvares CAbral couldn’t get off the boat in Brazil: he might have been carrying smallpox, measles, the flu, or other foreign plagues.
Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro could never have begun the conquest of Mexico and Peru: they didn’t have working papers.
Pedro …

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“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” — Susan B. Anthony …