Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Once you've been baptized, you've been gifted for sainthood... You are God's chosen one.

Lucy Stone

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

David Korten

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

David Korten

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Jack Herer

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

Jack Herer

My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

Jack Herer

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

Julian Bond

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

Julian Bond

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

Julian Bond

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me.

Jim Hightower

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

Charles Evers

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

Harry Bridges

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

Harry Bridges

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

Richard Grimes

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

Many teachers are aware of the importance of video games to schoolchildren but are unsure of how they can be used and examined effectively in school.

David Crane

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

David Crane

One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.

David Crane

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

Patricia Ireland

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Jesse Jackson

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

George Jackson

Growing numbers of blacks are openly passed over when paroles are considered. They have become aware that their only hope lies in resistance.

Kathy Acker

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

Michael Scott

If the cameras stopped rolling today, their hearts would still be over there.

Carry Nation

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Julian Bond

But I think the movement was a mix of who was black and young and who was in college then. We came from a variety of backgrounds.

Such hopes are, however, tempered by years of disillusioning memories, which remind us all that it takes two sides to make a peace.

Dorothy Day

My radical associates were the ones who were in the forefront of the struggle for a better social order where there would not be so many poor.

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.

Jim Hightower

I think democracy is under attack in our country. I think it was under attack before September 11th, and now is under rather harsh attack.

George Rockwell

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!