”In politics,
an organized minority is a political majority.
-- Jesse
Jackson |  |
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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears
the people, there is liberty.
~ Thomas
Jefferson The
care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and
only object of good government.
~ Thomas
Jefferson |  |
The spirit of resistance
to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always
kept alive.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
The
legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious
to others.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
That
government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
“People
often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people.
Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make
themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.”
-- Walter H. Judd
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"The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination
and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and
the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence
and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence - not only as a philosophy
but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside
the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry - becomes
one of the most urgent priorities."
-- Petra
Kelly | 
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I believe in an America
where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate
would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant
minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church
school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man
is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president
who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.
-- John
F. Kennedy |
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We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical
redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of
the architecture of American society.
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
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Cowardice asks the
question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks
the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And
there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic,
nor popular- but one must take it simply because it is right. --
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's very
important to vote. People died for this right.
-- Lenny
Kravitz |  |
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Citizens
across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department
of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make
non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm
shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice
and for violence control.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
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Some believe that the
only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one
is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change
through political settlement, not through violence.
-- Aung
San Suu Kyi |
“To make democracy
work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does
not vote has no right to complain.”
-- Louis L'Amour
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There
can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children,
and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence,
abuse or exploitation.
-- Jessica
Lange Yes,
and you should question your government.
-- Jessica
Lange
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…in
place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and
Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social
movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed,
and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.
-- Rabbi
Michael Lerner |  |
It is easy
to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic,
and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists
simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this
life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game
of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own
garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to
increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies,
courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.
-- C. S. Lewis
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“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”
-- Abraham Lincoln |  |
The prophecy of
a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best,
most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.
-- Walter Lippman
Whatever the
immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression
are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom.
Suppression is always foolish.
-- Neil A. McDonald
A
lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance
of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.
-- Michael Moore |
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes
the moral basis of our democracy.
~ Ralph
Nader |  |
However difficult
it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international
law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
-- John B. Orr
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