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Nya citat 2002-06-20
We are now making demands that will cost the nation something. You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with the captains of industry. ... Now this means that we are treading in difficult waters, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong ... with capitalism ...
There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism.
Martin Luther King
...man får faktiskt komma till en punkt där man inser att endera kan det vara fördjävligt eller så kan det vara riktigt fördjävligt.
Timbuktu om varför han uppmanar folk att rösta
Time is the room of human development. A man who has no free time to dispose of, whose whole lifetime, apart from the mere physical interruptions by sleep, meals and so forth, is absorbed by his labor for the capitalist, is less than a beast of burden. He is a mere machine for producing Foreign Wealth, broken in body and brutalized in mind. Yet the whole history of modern industry shows that capital, if not checked, will recklessly and ruthlessly work to cast down the whole working class to this utmost state of degradation.
Karl Marx
The people who own the country ought to govern it.
John Jay, Author of the Constitution, President of the Continental Congress, and first Chief Justice of the U.S.
Some of the problems of governance in the United States today stem from an excess of democracy ... The effective operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and noninvolvement on the part of some individuals and groups.
Samuel Huntington, U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission
The trouble is that when American dollars earn only six percent over here, they get restless and go overseas to get 100 percent. The flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
Gen. Smedley Butler, 1935
Never forget your country has 4 percent of the world's people and 22 percent of its wealth. We've got to sell something to the other 96 percent if we want to hold on to our standard of living.
U.S. President Bill Clinton, in a speech before the Democratic Leadership Council, October 13, 1999
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of dirty industries to the LDCs [Least Developed Countries] ... The measurements of the costs of health-impairing pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount of health-impairing pollution should be done in the country with the lowest cost, which will be the country with the lowest wages. I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that ... I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
Lawrence Summers, Vice-President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 1991
The principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance programs has always been the United States. Close to 80 percent of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID's) contracts and grants go directly to American firms.
USAID, The United States Agency for International Development
Human Rights Watch also calls on the United States to immediately suspend all military aid, arms sales, and military training to Colombia since it is clear that aid has supplied units implicated in gross human rights violations.
Human Rights Watch 1996
Far from being punished, the junior and mid-level officers who tolerated, planned, directed, and even took part in paramilitary violence in Colombia in the 1980s have been promoted and rewarded and now occupy the highest positions in the Colombian army.
Human Rights Watch 1996
It is time to clear the smokescreen of official denial and identify the military-paramilitary partnership for what it is: a sophisticated mechanism, in part supported by years of advice, training, weaponry, and official silence by the United States, that allows the Colombian military to fight a dirty war and Colombian officialdom to deny it.
Human Rights Watch 1996
President Rios Montt [is] a man of great personal integrity and commitment who wants to improve the quality of life for all Guatemalans, and [is] getting a bum rap on human rights.
Ronald Reagan, praising Guatemala's military dictator in 1982
Lay waste all the settlements around ... that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed. You will not, by any means, listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected ... Our future security will be in their inability to injure us ... and in the terror with which the severity of the chastisement they receive will inspire them.
George Washington, letter to Major General John Sullivan, 31 May 1779
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