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“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”

~Mario Savio

“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent…”

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

~Frederick Douglas (1857)

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

~Howard Zinn

“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”

~Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

~Arundhati Roy

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

~James Madison

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”

~Einstein

“What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

~Mohandas K. Gandhi

“Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.”

~Issac Asimov

“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”

~Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.”

~Margaret Mead

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.”

~Gerry Adams

“I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world.”

~Martin Luther King Jr.

“All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood to do the fighting for them.”

~Emma Goldman, 1917

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

~Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy.”

~Martin Luther King Jr.

“In the face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand times greater than that of the cave-man, no other conclusion is possible than that the capitalist class has mismanaged …criminally and selfishly mismanaged.”

~Jack London

“Let us not destroy those wonderful machines that produce efficiently and cheaply. Let us control them. Let us profit by their efficiency and cheapness. Let us run them for ourselves. That, gentlemen, is socialism…”

~Jack London

“There’s room at the top they are telling you still,
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill,”

~John Lennon

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

~Thomas Jefferson

“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”

~Thomas Jefferson

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

~Thomas Jefferson

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

~Thomas Jefferson

“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.”

~John F Kennedy

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.
Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation,
therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

~Former President Woodrow Wilson (In reference to signing the Federal Reserve Act in 1913)

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

~Jimi Hendrix

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.”

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”

~Swedish Proverb