“If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank.” — American proverb, quoted in David Graeber’s book, Debt: The First 5000 Years …

“As it turns out, we don’t “all” have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. Nothing would be more important than to wipe the slate clean for everyone, mark a break with our accustomed morality, and start again.” – David Graeber. …

“There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that’s remarkably rare. ” — Daniel Ellsberg
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“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” — Marcus Garvey

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“The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.” — David Suzuki …

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union… Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” — Susan B Anthony …

“Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.” — Laura Malone Elliott

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“Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” — Che Guevara

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“The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.” — Merle Hoffman …