If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn’t it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, ‘legal’ drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?
Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.
We’ve got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.
The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.
We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.
There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn’t produce fruit the first season.
I think George W. Bush’s personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.
Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn’t even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.
We don’t measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.
The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.
I don’t like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people’s lives.
General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
Secrecy destroys accountability.
If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress. The Israeli leader then ‘brings back millions of dollars’ in aid to Israel.
Whatever your issue is, whether it’s racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you’re not going to go anywhere with it if we don’t focus on the concentration of power.
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.