Apr
12
2012
“The spirit of resistance not just to political power but to the corporations that pull the puppet strings of our politicians, the reoccupation of public space that had been co-opted by the elites, the reassertion of rights that had languished for too long: all of this and more [has] provided an outline for a new politics of protest.” — John Nichols, from Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street …
Apr
11
2012
“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.” — Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce …
Apr
10
2012
“Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice.” — Bertrand Russell …
Apr
09
2012
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” — Che Guevara …
Apr
02
2012
“The perspective of wages for housework… is the demand of women for power, for autonomy against capital. It is the perspective of winning.” – Selma James, 1973 …
Mar
30
2012
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” — Nelson Mandela …
Mar
30
2012
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela …
Mar
29
2012
“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
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Mar
28
2012
“Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.” — Mark Twain …
Mar
27
2012
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy …