“The major media like its racist projections is to be rejected not consumed for your very patronage gives it life.” — Mumia Abu Jamal
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“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.” — Andrew Carnegie
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“Sexual terrorism coupled with religious zealotry has stolen [Iraqi women’s] right to claim their place in public life. This, then, is a hidden part of the unnecessary suffering loosed by the reckless invasion of Iraq. Amid the daily explosions and gunfire that make the papers is a wave of sexual terrorism, whose exact dimensions we have no way of knowing, and that no one here notices, unleashed by the Bush administration in the name of …

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“It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.” — George Bernard Shaw …

Violent fundamentalist Islam is a danger to the world. So is violent fundamentalist Christianity, and violent fundamentalist Judaism. What British Muslims have been united in demanding since the July bombings is an end to denial and the begininning of realism. What they have demanded is honesty from the British government about the part played in this disaster by Britain’s violent and inflexible – ‘fundamentalist’ — foreign policy.” — Milan Rai, from “7/7: The London Bombings, …

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“I’d rather lose an eye fighting against injustice than live as a quiet slave.” — Michael Zinzun …

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. — Lippmann, Walter …

“Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs — in religion, literature, colleges and schools — democracy in all public and private life….” – Walt Whitman …

“You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won’t help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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“Do you know what surprised me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. In the end the sword is always beaten by the spirit.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
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