Lifted from whatreallyhappened.com:
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“I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.” — General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant, 1935
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will.”
— Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895, escaped slave, abolitionist, author, orator, statesman
” It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.” — Albert Camus, French writer and thinker, 1913-1960
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.” — Albert Schweitzer
“No other democratic country in the world denies as many people – in absolute or proportional terms – the right to vote because of felony convictions.” — Human Rights Watch – “World Report 1999, United States”
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” The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.” — Karl Marx
” The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.” — John Dewey, American philosopher and educator, 1859-1952
“A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn’t have an air force.” — William Blum, Rogue State, p93
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” — Johann W. von Goethe
“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” — Thomas Paine
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” — Frederick Douglass
Your failure to be informed, does not make me a wacko. — John Loeffler
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.” — Marcus Aurelius
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” — Samuel Adams
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” — Samuel Adams
“War is the public agenda for the hidden desires of a private elite” — Bodazey
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” — Pericles, 430 BC
“Politics is the womb in which war develops.” — Carl von Clausewitz
I like to think of myself as a patriot, but even more so as a man. Where the two disagree, I say the man is right. — Hermann Hesse – Author (1877-1962)
“Just who are these goddamn reds, anyway? A goddamn red is anyone who wants 30 cents when I am paying 25.” — John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath”
Sorry. Went a little long there.