“Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.” — Eugene Debs …

“Our time has come to trade the sorrows of empire for the joys of earth community that our descendents look back on this time as the time of the ‘Great Turning,’ when humanity made a bold choice to birth a new era devoted to actualizing the higher potentials of our human nature. We are the ones we have been waiting for .” — David Korten …

“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.” — Gloria Steinem
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“No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.” –Kenneth Tynan.
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“The hour has arrived where we liberate ourselves completely. I feel a wave of uprising and rebellion all around Latin America and a growing courage to stop our subjugation at the hands of the North American empire.” – Evo Morales …

“It’s patently obvious that patriotism isn’t practiced by those who inculcate it into others. It’s a sentiment that’s infused in us so that we’ll put ourselves at the disposition of our exploiters. When we take the gun in hand to defend the nation, that which we’re defending is the property of our bosses. Let us open our eyes.” – Ricardo Flores Magon, from a 1917 essay on Patriotism. …

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” — Mohandas Gandhi
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