“Imagine getting in a Time Machine and going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that the King [of England] would one day be reminding America about the importance of democracy and our checks and balances. That is the timeline we’re living in.”
— Rep. Melanie Stansbury
“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.”
— Rebecca Solnit
“To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.”
— Raymond Williams
“Since corrupt people unite among themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.”
– George Orwell
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
– Frederic Bastiat
“Power's not a chalice. It's a hammer. And it only does one thing. Power smashes. The subtext of all power is extortion. It's always the threat of force, of imprisonment, the threat of death. Always.”
— Adam Skelter
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]
— Harry S. Truman
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