Abraham Lincoln: I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4401
Mahatma Gandhi: Be the change you want to see in the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4402
Abraham Lincoln: I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4403
General Douglas MacArthur: Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4404
General Smedley Butler: I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.... I could have given Al Capone a few hints... I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys.... I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street.... I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers.... I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4405
Frederick Douglass: Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4406
Harry Truman: 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. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4407
Thomas Jefferson: Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4408
Gore Vidal: When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4409
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Gore Vidal: The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4410
Franklin D. Roosevelt: In politics, nothing happens by accident, if it happens, you can be sure we planned it that way. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4411
Felix Frankfurter: The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4412
Buckminster Fuller: Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4413
John Adams: It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4414
Marshall McLuhan: Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4415
Hitler: Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4416
Albert J. Beveridge: Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4417
Patrick Henry: The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4418
Thomas Jefferson: An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4419
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Thomas Jefferson: Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4420
James Baldwin: People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4421
The American Heritage Dictionary: Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4422
Plato: The penalty good men suffer for not getting involved in public affairs is being ruled by evil men. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4423
Plato: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4424
Michael Parenti: The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4425
George Orwell: In times of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4426
Thomas Jefferson: We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4427
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George Orwell: We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4428
Joseph Goebbels: The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4429
Kurt Cobain: The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4430
Pablo Neruda: You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4431
Federico Garcia Lorca: I am a revolutionary because there are no true poets that are not revolutionaries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4432
Nelson Mandela: Che's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4433
Aleida Guevara March: When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4434
Jean-Paul Sartre: You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4435
Ernesto Sábato: The Struggle of Guevara against the US was the struggle of the Spirit against Matter. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4436
John Locke: All just power is derived from the consent of the governed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4437