“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing.” — Walter H Judd …

“Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.” — Noam Chomsky …

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and our own.” — Cesar Chavez …

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” — Wendell Berry …

“Feminism directly confronts the notion that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.” — Liz Stanley and Sue Wise …

“No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.” — George Sand …

“That’s the whole trouble of this fire. Nobody cares. Nobody. One hundred and forty-six people in a half-hour. I have always tears in my eyes when I think, it should never have happened. The executives, with a couple of steps, could have opened the door. But they thought they were better than the working people. It’s not fair because material, money, is more important here than everything.” — Rose Freedman, survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist …

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“My question is: why? Why punish all of Gaza’s Palestinians? Is it to make us all so afraid we can’t close our eyes? To make us beg for mercy? To make us want it to stop at any expense? It is cruel. It is inhumane. It is collective punishment. It is psychological terror and torture in its rawest, most disturbing form. And so the war on Gaza continues.” — Laila El-Haddad …

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance. — H. Jackson Brown

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