We are at war, and that war is not simply a hot debate between the capitalist camp and the socialist camp over which economic/political/social arrangement will have hegemony in the world. It's not just the battle over turf and who has the right to utilize resources for whom-so-ever's benefit. The war is also being fought over the truth: what is the truth about human nature, about the human potential?
Toni Cade Bambara

Historical understanding teaches us to transform the seemingly fixed and internal in our lives into things that can be changed. It teaches…people that the structured surrounding them have been made and remade over and over. It teaches that we live in history. When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
Helen Keller

Power lies in the growth of awareness. If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn

Resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

Humans are complex creatures. We have a demonstrated capacity for hatred, violence, competition and greed. We have as well a demonstrated capacity for love, tenderness, cooperation and compassion. Healthy societies nurture the latter and in doing so create an abundance of those things that are most important to the quality of our living. Dysfunctional societies nurture the former and in so doing create scarcity and deprivation. A healthy society makes it easy to live in balance with the environment, whereas a dysfunctional society makes it nearly impossible. Whether we organizeour societies for social and environmental health or for dysfunction is a choice that is ours to make.
David C. Korten

The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails, and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like... the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
C.S. Lewis

We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations.
Joel Bleifuss

Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn’t communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives?.
Noam Chomsky

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

I hope I never lose hope, but if that day comes and I'm sure that I have nothing to expect, nothing to believe in, and that the human condition is doomed to stupidity and crime, then I hope I will be honest enough to kill myself.
Eduardo Galeano

Most of the news the world receives comes from and is directed at a minority of humanity – understandably so from the point of view of the commercial operations that sell news and collect the lion's share of their revenues in Europe and the United States. It's a monologue by the North ... Other regions and countries get little or no attention except in the case of war or catastrophe, and then the journalists covering the story often don't speak the language or have the least idea of local history or culture. The [global] South is condemned to look at itself through the eyes of those who scorn it.
Eduardo Galeano

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice… when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr