“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …

“‘Liberal’ comes from the Latin ‘liberalis,’ which means pertaining to a free man; in politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.” — Gore Vidal …

“Those who resist – the doubters, outcasts, artists, renegades, skeptics, and rebels – rarely come from the elite. They ask different questions. They seek something else: a life of meaning.” — Chris Hedges …

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.” — Gore Vidal
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“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. …

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …

“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.” — Niels Bohr …

“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” — Samuel Adams …

“We may feel powerless in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture, and our ecosystem. But we are not. We have a power, as the Occupy encampments demonstrated, that terrifies the corporate state. Any act of rebellion, no matter how few people show up or how heavily it is censored, chips away at corporate power. Any act of rebellion keeps alive the embers for larger movements that follow us.” — …

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