“In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life.” — Vandana Shiva …

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” — Albert Einstein
…

“Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.” — Naomi Klein …

“To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.” –Desmond Tutu …

“The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.” — Jawaharlal Nehru …

“American workers labor longer than any of their counterparts in the Western world. But they are also worse off than any of those counterparts. They are not receiving their just desserts. Now let’s do something together about this abomination.” — Ralph Nader from his book The Seventeen Solutions. …

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

…

“It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” — Mahatma Gandhi …

“[W]e are all Americans of the New World, and our most dangerous enemies are not each other but the great wall of ignorance between us.” — Juan Gonzalez …

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.” — Noam Chomsky …