“You can cage the singer but not the song.” — Harry Belafonte …

“We will have to resist the temptation to fold in on ourselves and to ignore the injustice visited on others, especially those we do not know. As distinct and moral beings, we will endure only through these small, sometimes imperceptible acts of defiance. This defiance, this capacity to say no, is what mass culture and mass propaganda seeks to eradicate.” — Chris Hedges …

“U.S. journalists I don’t think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government’s policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.” — Robert Fisk …

“The concept of the commons flies in the face of the modern wisdom that each spot on the globe consists merely of coordinates on a global grid laid out by state and market….Commons implies the right of local people to define their own grid.” —The Ecologist magazine, 1993 …

“A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …

“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” — R. Buckminster Fuller …

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” — John Lennon …

“Until progressives break with Obama’s rosy perceptions, they will have nothing to offer as a retort to the tea-party faux populists who are effectively monopolizing the legitimate rage over the bailouts that has spread like wildfire throughout the land.” — Robert Scheer …

“Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.” — Vandana Shiva …