“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” — Alberto Giacometti …

“Fundamentalism isn’t about religion. It’s about power.” — Salman Rushdie …

“The struggle between thought-control and freedom of expression is the struggle between the people and a greedy unpatriotic minority which hates and fears the people.” — John Howard Lawson [note: This statement was never put into the public record by HUAC]
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“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind…War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” — John F. Kennedy
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“The combination of institutionalized injustices, real bad luck, and stunningly incompetent disaster relief heaped relentless hardships on a fragile disapora of households too used to how stress and hardships beget the same. Then they were called out for their names, accused in the press of shooting at their own rescuers, looting their own survival, defamed for rapes that never occurred, ignored for the rapes that did, and in a mythologizing process that is still unfolding, …

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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” – Blaise Pascal …

“It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.” – Paolo Friere …

“What is at stake is the evolution of nature and survival of people, our food sovereignty and food freedom, integrity of creation and our food systems based on the evolutionary freedom of nature and democratic freedoms of farmers and consumers. The choice before us is bio-imperialism or bio-democracy. Will a few corporations have a dictatorship over our governments, our knowledge and information, our lives and all life on the planet or will we as members …

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“The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.” — Jonathan Kozol …

Chino Hardin, a New York-based organizer with the Prison Moratorium Project, said: “You treat people like animals, you lock them in cages. At some point, the only thing they have control over is their body.” …