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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Source: On Life and Essays on Religion
There is no elegant solution to a poorly defined problem.
Architect Harry Gordon
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
James Arthur Baldwin
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
Carl Sagan
In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Carl Sagan
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller (1891-1980) The Wisdom of the Heart, 1941
Zeus said to Prometheus, "Okay, you stole fire. Great for you. Now your people have technology. Wonderful. But here's something you don't know. You lack two things. And if you don't take these two things that I will give you, this will be a failure. Technology, you know, fire, all your magic, it will fail completely. It will be your undoing. And the two things that you need to make it work are justice and reverence. And if you have these two things, you won't get in trouble with this third thing that you thought was the be all and the end all."
Barry Lopez on Bill Moyer's Journal April 30th, 2010
You should not cooperate with evil.
Mohandas Gandhi
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, ... want crops without plowing up the ground, ... want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
Frederick Douglass
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
Frederick Douglass
We all sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it.
Bob Dylan "Visions of Johanna"
Now, each of us has his own special gift and you know this was meant to be true, And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.
Bob Dylan "Dear Landlord"
The essential characteristic of a nation is that all its individuals must have many things in common, and must have forgotten many things as well.
Ernest Renan 19th French philosopher
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey
A lie will fly around the whole world while the truth is getting its boots on.
Attributed to Mark Twain Standard Player Monthly, 1918
Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
Dalai Lama
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steve Biko
History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill
News is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity.
Bill Moyers May 15, 2005
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcolm X
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Source: On Life and Essays on Religion
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay
It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
Henry Kissinger
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russel Mortals and Others (1931-35)
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
George Bernard Shaw
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Thomas Edison
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Plato
We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
Wendell Berry
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody—a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns—bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
to be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings Ottawa Hills, Michigan High School Spectator Ocober 26, 1955
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
Julian Assange
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.
Julian Assange
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
Julian Assange
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim, "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
Susan B. Anthony, in Federal Court on trial for voting June 18, 1873
The planes always come … like planets on rotation, a timed bloodletting, with different excuses.
Jayne Anne Phillips from Lark and Termite describing the skies over Korea in the 1950s
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.
Emma Goldman
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
Barbara Jordan
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Vandana Shiva
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
Vandana Shiva Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
Vandana Shiva Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.
Cindy Gallop
Wall Street owns the country ... Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags.
Mary Elizabeth Lease Populist orator—1890
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to rid the world of evil-doers.
Arundhati Roy
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
Arundhati Roy
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours.
Arundhati Roy Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds ... Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.
Arundhati Roy
The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq—mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods—are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.
Arundhati Roy Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire
There's really no such thing as the "voiceless". There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Arundhati Roy
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn
A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.
Emily Dickinson
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.
Coretta Scott King
It is not easy to find happiness within ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged.
Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
Dorothy Day
Never doubt that a small group of caring, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim, "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
Susan B. Anthony, in Federal Court on trial for voting June 18, 1873
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus
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 to an audience at Carnegie Hall one year before the United States entered World War I
Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear.
Helena Cassadine
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Rosa Luxemburg
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
Marian Anderson
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
Barbara Ehrenreich
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
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