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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate December 7, 1922

Zodiac Virgo

Location Brooklyn, New York

Country United States

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When people don`t understand that the government doesn`t have their interests in mind, they`re more susceptible to go to war.

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How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

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I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers

Tags: complacency ethics humanity independence politics society

TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places

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Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should remind them that the words of the Declaration [of Independence] apply not only to people in this country, but also to people all over the world. People everywhere have the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When the government becomes destructive of that, then it is patriotic to dissent and to criticize - to do what we always praise and call heroic when we look upon the dissenters and critics in totalitarian countries who dare to speak out.

Tags: dissent patriotism politics

The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor, the racism, the use of victims against one another, the lack of resources of the underclass to speak out, the endless

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Why should we cherish

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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

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There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

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