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Nya citat 2002-01-02
In making their case, advocates should emphasize that full employment policies are mandated by the US Constitution and the United Nations Charter, which the United States is committed to uphold. They should also make clear that actions by the US Government and by the Federal Reserve Bank to create involuntary unemployment to fight inflation are violations of international and human rights law.
David Gil
Job creation is expensive, but so is joblessness. The true cost of creating jobs for everyone who wants to work is the difference between the cost of creating the jobs and the costs of unemployment that governments already bear. Creating jobs for all might end up saving taxpayers more money than it costs them.
Philip Harvey
Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared. It is their real price; money is their nominal price only.
Adam Smith
Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power.
John Kenneth Galbraith 1999
Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.
L. Brandeis
Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups
Paul Krugman
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
You've heard of the "Golden Rule" haven't you? The one who has the gold, makes the rules.
From Disney's "Aladdin"
The rich never feel so good as when they are speaking of their possessions as responsibilities.
Robert Lynd 1879-1949
The music wouldn't exist without the politics. When we're playing a show, if something clicks for any one kid in the audience - starting that change, that process of thinking for themselves - that's the most potent time Rage Against the Machine can have as a band.
Brad Wilk, RATM
Ordet rätt använt kan utveckla samma styrka, få samma konsekvenser, som eldvapen.
Henning Mankell
Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.
Tom Morello, RATM
I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism
Martin Luther King
There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed
Mahatma Gandhi
The environment is man’s first right.
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria
If you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all.
Ronald Reagan, US President
Live life simply so that others may simply live.
Mahatma Gandhi
...vad ondskan lyckats åstadkomma i fråga om antalet dödade och lemlästade människor är direkt ynkligt om man jämför med vad godheten förmår.
Carsten Palmaer
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual
capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: “This is not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: “This is not just.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
The world of individualistic competition is experienced every day; the world of harmonious unanimity is fully realised only in sporadic flashes of togetherness, glimpses of what might be if only people would cooperate and their purposes reinforce, rather than undercut, one
another.
Robert Bellah
Det politiska agerandet i denna sak kan ses som en ny yttring av 1968-syndromet. Efter det nu upplösta bandet mellan kyrkan och staten gäller attacken adeln, och nästa steg är en attack mot monarkin och hela etablissemanget här i landet
Friherre Johan Nordenfalk, avgående ordförande i Riddarhusdirektionen, om en riksdagsmotion om att avskaffa adelns sista privilegium - att riddarhusordningen är en del av svensk författningssamling
Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Leon Trotsky on Stalin
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary though it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Boredom is counter-revolutionary.
Situationist slogan from Paris, may 1968
I knew I could have been lynched, manhandled, or beaten when the police came. I chose not to move. When I made that decision, I knew that I had the strength of my ancestors with me.
Rosa Parks
Ur skrivandet och läsandet kommer sen talandet; att kunna resa sig och säga vad man anser. Och ur talandet kommer lyssnandet. Man har blivit människa.
Henning Mankell
Only by forcing man to see through the hoax of the old world, will he ever willingly step into the new.
Alan Grant
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.
Fred Hampton, the Black Panther Party
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
Malcolm X
He has the nerve to call us violent when last year there were 80,000 cases of police brutality filed against departments all over the country this sheriff pig is poppin' off, poppin'off about how we're violent. Well, shit, he belongs to the most violent gang in US history.
Zack de la Rocha, RATM, referring to a Sheriff who tried to get a Rage concert banned
I'm standing on my constitutional rights. I'm not going to allow you to brutalize me. I'm going to stop you from brutalizing my people. You got your gun, pig, I got mine. If you shoot at me, I'm shooting back.
Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party
The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
The real reason that the war we just finished took place was that Germany was afraid her commercial rivals were going to get the better of her and the reason why some nations went into the war against Germany was that they thought Germany would get the advantage of them.
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President, 1919
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President
There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future.
Noam Chomsky
Niggaz get organizational skills
Cus’ organizational skills
Kill more devils than bullets
Jeru the Damaja
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The income generated by working children in Guatemala is more than the total budget of the Ministry of Education.
Guillermo Monroy, Guatemalan Archbishop's office on Human Rights, 1998
Those with power are frequently least aware of - or least willing to acknowledge - its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.
Delpit
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
Emma Goldman
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it
appears.
Alan C. Kay
The only bad "f-word" is FCC.
Tom Morello, RATM, on censorship
Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It wasn't a war. It was a massacre. It's well documented. ... There's no denying it. It was murder.
Peter Leibovitch from the international war crimes tribunal set up after the Gulf War
When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty.
Arthur Ponsonby, British diplomat and writer
We see the same intolerance of dissent; the same mad, global ambitions; the same brutal determination to control every life and all of life
George W Bush, US President, on the Talibans in Afghanistan and not on his own government
Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world.
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967, on the Vietnam War
... colonialism is not just any relationship between masters and servants, but one in which an entire society is robbed of its historical line of development, externally manipulated and transformed according to the needs and interests of the colonial rulers ... Characteristic of modern colonialism, although not of world history as a whole, is the unwillingness of the new rulers to make cultural concessions to subjugated societies.
Jurgen Osterhammel
...it involves our need for markets for our agricultural and industrial products, our need to seek in return from the rest of the world such essentials as manganese and cobalt, tin and tungsten.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President, on the Korean War, 11 Jun 1953
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
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