Heroes for a Better World

Granny D
(Doris Haddock)

(1910-)

American Political & Anti-Nuclear Activist

birthdate: January 24
birthplace:
Laconia, New Hampshire

QUOTES

"The time for this shame is ending. The American people see it and have decided against it. Our brooms are ballots, and we come a-sweeping."

You have to ask the right questions. If you ask people if they are in favor of campaign finance reform, they don't know. But if you ask them if too much money is spent on elections, they say, Oh, isn't it awful?."

"I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws."

Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.

"The men and women who would be our public servants need mentors who have been grayed and wrinkled by long experience -- a kind of Big Brother, Big Sister program for politicians at risk."

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money."

"I didn't anticipate as much of a wave as I have created and I'm very happy for it. It just shows what one person can do."

Our grievance is that we no longer have proper representation. Our elected leaders are consumed by the need to raise election funds from special interests, and they no longer are able to represent the needs of the people or of our ravaged earth.

We must declare our independence from the corrupting bonds of big money in our election campaigns by reforming or campaign finance system. We must alter our government. As a people, we know how to declare our independence and authorize alterations of our government.

Dear friends, we would never seek to abolish now what has become our dear United States. But it is our constant intention that it should be a government of, by and for the people, not the special interests. Our right to alter our government must be used to sweep these halls clean of greedy interests so that people may use this government in service to each other's needs and to protect the condition of our earth.

We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Love is about cooperation, sharing and inclusion. It is about the elevation of each individual to a life neither suppressed nor exploited, but instead nourished to rise to its full potential--a life for its own sake and so that we may all benefit by the gift of that life.

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.

 


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