POLITICS
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“Always
vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and
you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your
vote is never lost.”
-- John Quincy Adams
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It's
crucial to understand that as a society, we
can reorganize. We can reorganize socially,
politically, and economically, and we can reorganize
according to our values.
-- Rebecca Adamson
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Our
government is never what it seems,
Making secret deals behind the scenes.
Selling favors, guns and oil deeds,
It's supposed to serve its governed people's
needs!
-- Robert Alan
Silverstein
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Why
are they the ones that get to say what is right and
wrong?
The profits before people way makes it hard to get
along.
We want a world that's fair and just with peace for
everyone.
We've got to go on now, we must, before our world
is done.
We want our world back!
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
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“I
believe there should be a part of society that
conscientiously works as a ‘critical partner’
of the government.”
-- Dewi Rana Amir
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Different
men seek after happiness in different ways and
by different means, and so make for themselves
different modes of life and forms of government.
-- Aristotle
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No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the
collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ...
a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities
and political systems is urgent.
-- Maude Barlow
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When
you become active in the system and communicate
to your representatives, and they don't vote
in accordance with your values, your responsibility
is to support candidates who will.
-- Joan Blades
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed
that their vote matters, that their vote is counted,
and that in the voting booth, their vote has a
much weight as that of any CEO, any member of
Congress, or any President.
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“There
is no private domain of a person's life that
is not political, and there is no political
issue that is not ultimately personal.”
-- Charlotte
Bunch
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the 20th century has been characterized by three developments
of great political importance: The growth of democracy,
the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate
propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power
against democracy.
-- Alex Carey, Australian social scientist
There
is a higher law than the law of government. That's
the law of conscience.
-- Stokely Carmichael
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"Most
Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation,
hunger, sickness, and futility in which many
other Americans live...They won't become involved
in economic or political change until something
brings the seriousness of the situation home
to them."
-- Shirley
Chisholm
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Representative
democracy, as in, say, the United States or
Great Britain, would be criticized by an anarchist
of this school on two grounds. First of all
because there is a monopoly of power centralized
in the State, and secondly -and critically
- because representative democracy is limited
to the political sphere and in no serious
way encroaches on the economic sphere. Anarchists
of this tradition have always held that democratic
control of one's productive life is at the
core of any serious human liberation, or,
for that matter, of any significant democratic
practice. That is, as long as individuals
are compelled to rent themselves on the market
to those who are willing to hire them, as
long as their role in production is simply
that of ancillary tools, then there are striking
elements of coercion and oppression that make
talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.
-- Noam Chomsky
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Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled
and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by
the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the
militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon
in public opinion, and deceived by politicians.
'But notwithstanding all this and all these,
labor is today the most vital and potential
power this planet has ever known, and its historic
mission is as certain of ultimate realization
as is the setting of the sun.
-- Eugene V. Debs
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You
have got to unite in the same labor union and in the
same political party and strike and vote together,
and the hour you do that, the world is yours.
-- Eugene V. Debs
"We
ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the
civil and political rights that belong to citizens
of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our
daughters forever."
-- Declaration of Rights for Women, July 1876
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“We
have a complete void of progressive politics in
this country right now. The will of the people
goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for
the people that can enter the political system,
a strong third party. We need to consolidate.”
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"I
realized that public affairs were also my affairs.
I became active in politics because I saw the possibility,
if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in
which there would no longer be any stages for actors
to act on."
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980)
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