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31.
Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy,
which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. ln those
transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about
their concerns as if they were our own
Fritz Williams
30.
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them.
But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams
than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for
Paulo Coelho
29.
"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to
look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth
can give you either the key
or the door to open, except yourself."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
28.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they
will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle
Edmund Burke
27.
"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is
also a prison."
Henry David Thoreau
26.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The
conduct of public affairs for private advantage
Ambrose Bierce
25.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives
James Madison
24.
"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer
evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return."
Socrates 469 - 399 BC
23.
" The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of
private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state
itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an
individual, by a group or any controlling private power. "
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22.
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man
must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as
many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable,
and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of
human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?
Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845
21.
Listen to the Legend of the White Buffalo
Where Will Our Children Live...
A lonesome warrior stands in fear of what the future brings,
he will never hear the beating drums or the songs his brothers sing.
Our many nations once stood tall and ranged from shore to shore
but most are gone and few remain and the buffalo roam no more.
We shared our food and our land and gave with open hearts,
We wanted peace and love and hope, but all were torn apart.
All this was taken because we did not know what the white man had in store,
They killed our people and raped our lands and the buffalo roam no more.
But those of us who still remain hold our heads up high, and the spirits of
the elders flow through us as if they never died.
Our dreams will live on forever and our nations will be reborn, our bone and
beads and feathers all will be proudly worn.
If you listen close you will hear the drums and songs upon the winds, and in
the distance you will see....the buffalo roam again.
American Indian Tale
20.
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I
believe-I believe what I believe is right"
George W. Bush: 43rd President of the United States
19.
"The rights of all persons are wrapped in the same constitutional bundle as
those of the most hated member of the community."
A. L. Wirin - ACLU Attorney: Source: Time Magazine, 10 February 1978
18.
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to
vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is
precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest
minority on earth is the individual).
(Ayn Rand)
17.
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
Henry David Thoreau - (1817-1862)
16.
"...the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN
charter."
UN Chief Kofi Annan - -September 2004. Source BBC
15.
"But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
Euripides - (480-406 B.C.) - Source: The Phoenician Women, 411-409 B.C.
14.
"But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
Euripides - (480-406 B.C.) - Source: The Phoenician Women, 411-409 B.C
13.
"The misapprehension springs from the fact that the learned jurists, deceiving
themselves as well as others, depict in their books an ideal of government --
not as it really is, an assembly of men who oppress their fellow-citizens, but
in accordance with the scientific postulate, as a body of men who act as the
representatives of the rest of the nation.
They have gone on repeating this to others so long that they have ended by
believing it themselves, and they really seem to think that justice is one of
the duties of governments. History, however, shows us that governments, as seen
from the reign of Caesar to those of the two Napoleons and Prince Bismarck, are
in their very essence a violation of justice; a man or a body of men having at
command an army of trained soldiers, deluded creatures who are ready for any
violence, and through whose agency they govern the State, will have no keen
sense of the obligation of justice.
Therefore governments will never consent to diminish the number of those
well-trained and submissive servants, who constitute their power and influence."
Leo Tolstoy - Source: Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence (Signet
Books, 1968), pp. 238-239.
12.
"To initiate a war of aggression is not only an
international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from
other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the
whole."
Nuremberg Tribunal
11.
"The more laws, the less justice."
Marcus Tullius Cicero - (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
10.
"Real eyes
real ize
real lies"
Graffiti on an underground wall in Colorado, by unknown.
Shown in Neil Slade's movie
"Amazing Brain Music Adventure: Mirror"
9.
"Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his
constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them."
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General - Source:
Reader's Digest, December 1963
8.
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror.
Heinrich Himmler
7.
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at
once."
David Hume - (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, historian and economist
6.
"Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves
to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the
Declaration of Independence, we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our
sacred Honor" not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state,
whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us"
Butler D. Shaffer
5.
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no
success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must
confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over"
Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels
4.
"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression,
while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace."
George W. Bush UN Speech Sept 2004
3.
"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end
justifies the means."
Georges Bernanos
2.
“It appears that a criminal syndicate is running the American
people’s government,”
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
1.
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is
perceived to be true."
Henry Kissinger
