posted by Lightning at 10:43 AM
12.01.06 "The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise."- Jim Larkin, Irish trade union leader, socialist activist, and ancestor of the Ignore Them staff
04.26.06 "If you lessen your anger at the structures of power,you lower your love for the victims of power." - William Sloane Coffin
03.29.06 "This is what you should do, love the Earth and the Sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks. Stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote income and labor to others. Hate tyrants, argue not concerning God."- Walt Whitman
03.03.06 "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."- George Orwell
03.28.06 "You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution." - Fred Hampton
02.17.06 "I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."- Muhammad Ali
02.17.06 "02.12.06 "I Have A Dream...."- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr... listen to the entire speech here.
02.08.06 "There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."- Howard Zinn
1.01.06 "Check out the real situation, nation war agaisnt nation, where did it all begin, where will it end, well it seems like, total destruction the only solution."- Bob Marley from the song 'Real Situation' on the 'Uprising' album
1.28.06 "Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." ~George Carlin
1.22.05 "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."- Timothy Leary
1.17.05 "While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."- Eugene V. Debs
1.15.06 "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Dr. Mrtin Luther King, Jr.
01.12.06 "Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it." -Rainer Maria Rilke
01.05.06 "In solitude, be to thyself a throng."- Montaigne
01.02.06 "Our worst evil is ignorance and our greatest weapon is knowledge."- Fr. Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of America Watch
12.30.05 "When you stand before God you cannot say I was told by others to do thus, as virtue was not convient at the time. This will not suffice."- from the movie Kingdom of Heaven.
12.29.05 "The poor are not those who have been "left behind", they are the ones who have been robbed."- Dr. Vandana Shiva
12.27.05 "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."- Arundhati Roy
Christmas .05 "This day shall change all griefs and quarrels into love"- William Shakespeare
12.15.05 "Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance."- Dennis Kucinich
12.12.05 "All we are saying, is give peace a chance."- John Lennon
11.25.05 "Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." ~Unknown
11.23.05 "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."- Bob Dylan
11.18.05 "We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness."- Thomas Merton
11.16.05 "1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."- Kurt Vonnegut, from 'Breakfast of Champions'
11.13.05 "Power goes unquestioned because our eyes are full of images that obscure it ."- Andrei Cedreseu
11.12.05 "We expect old men to be conservative but when the nation's young men are so it's funeral bell is already rung."- Henry Ward Beecher
11.11.05 "Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise."- Alice Walker
11.10.05 "No one has changed a great nation without appealing to it's soul."- Robert Bellah
11.09.05 "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."- Donald Rumsfeld, Sec. of Defense
11.08.05 "Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."- Martin Luther King, Jr.
11.6.05 "Exclusiveness; the most obscene word in the English language."- Carl Sandburg
11.04.05 "What have they done to the earth...what have they done to our fair sister. Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her, stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn, and tied her with fences and dragged her down...We want the world and we want it NOW!"- Jim Morrison, from 'When the Musics' Over'
11.4.05 11.02.05 "Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."- Noam Chomsky
10.31.05 "The Life of the Spirit requires less and less. Time is ample and It's passage sweet."- Annie Dillard, from The Writing Life
10.29.05 "It's hard to sell shit."- Lawrence Wilkerson, former head of the Marine Corps College, on Bush's tarnishing of America's image.
10.27.05 "There is no more fatal blunder'er than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living."- Henry David Thoreau
10.26.05 "Poverty is the worst form of violence"- Gandhi
10.21.05 "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them." -Albert Einstein
10.19.05 "No system in history [capitalism] has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience."- Michael Parenti
10.16.05 "And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once"- Friedrich Nietzsche
10.15.05 "The earth is not dying, it is being murdered."- Utah Philips
10.13.05 "Disarm or we die."- Fr. Daniel Berrigan
10.12.05 "May the forest be with you."- Lightning
10.11.05 "Osama bin Laden and George Bush are both terrorists. They are both building international networks that perpetrate terror and devastate people's life. Bush, with the Pentagon, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. Bin Laden with Al Qaeda. The difference is that nobody elected bin Laden."- Arundhati Roy
10.10.05 "Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."- Thomas Merton
10.9.05 "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.- Kurt Vonnegut
10.7.05 "Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."- Edward Abbey
10.6.05 "Call in well and take the day on."- Jed
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