“History will win. The world will be elevated to a better place. Will we survive? That depends on you.” — Julian Assange …

“You have given the wealthiest [portion] of the population a break, and now you are coming before the American people and saying, ‘We don’t have enough money to protect the sick and the old.” — Bernie Sanders …

“Always remember the first rule of power tactics: power is not only what you have, but also what the enemy thinks you have.” — Saul Alinsky …

“This is how America works. Our real government is mostly kept hidden from view, and the truly weighty decisions about where our society is going and what rules it is going to live by are made mostly in private, by groups of anonymous lawyers and bureaucrats and lobbyists, government officials and industry reps alike.” — Matt Taibbi …

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein …

“Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can’t do anything about that.” — Miriam Makeba
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“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” — Walt Streightiff …

“We are realizing that conservation is not about managing wildlife as much as it is about managing ourselves – our appetites, expectations, fears, our fundamental avariciousness. If we do not succeed at that, other forces assuredly will. Judging by the pain already caused by climate change and biodiversity loss – flood, famine, fissures – those forces will not be kind.” — Caroline Fraser …

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.” — Fredrick Buechner …

“Privatisation does not mean you take a public institution and give it to some nice person. It means you take a public institution and give it to an unaccountable tyranny.” — Noam Chomsky …