“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy, it is absolutely essential to it.” — Howard Zinn …

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.” — Albert Einstein

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“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“We have picked a fight with the most powerful economic and political forces on the planet. That’s frightening. And as this movement grows from strength to strength, it will get more frightening… Let’s treat this beautiful movement as if it is the most important thing in the world. Because it is. It really is.” — Naomi Klein, speaking to Occupy Wall Street on October 6, 2011 …

“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.” — Jacques Cousteau …

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Truth will ultimately prevail where there are pains to bring it to light.” — George Washington …

“A person is a person because he [or she] recognizes others as persons.” — Desmond Tutu
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“Capital is dead labor, which vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” — Karl Marx …

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” — Aristotle

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