“With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.” ~Kingman Brewster, Jr. …

“A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.” — Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General, speaking to the New York Times in 1968. …

“The best way to rebuild a city is to listen to its people – both near and far. together we will continue to raise our voices to say; we will rebuild our city for all of us.” — From “New Orleans: Recover, Rebuild, Organize,” ACORN
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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer …

“Today the division between the majority of “us” and “them” is still intact. This country does not want to acknowledge its walls or limits, the places some people are stopped or stop themselves, the lines they aren’t allowed to cross. . . . [But] the future belongs to those who cultivate cultural sensitivities to differences and who use these abilities to forge a hybrid consciousness that transcends the “us” vs. “them” mentality and will carry …

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“My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: “We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.” — Mother Jones
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“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” – Malcolm X. …

“If tens of millions of Americans go without basic and preventative care, we all pay the bill when their health problems turn into complex medical emergencies necessitating expensive and specialized treatment. And if we condone a health care system that contributes to the formation of an untouchable caste of the ill, infirm, and marginally employed, all of us, as a society, will lose the right to feel pride in the democratic values that we claim …

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“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.” –Mahatma Gandhi
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …