JJ's Choice - Activism

Activism

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After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless | Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything - Mark Twain | Grief is the price we pay for love - QE2 | If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor - Desmond Tutu | And on the most exalted throne in the world sits nothing but a man's arse - Montaigne | Violence is the voice of the unheard - JFK | The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in | Once we let our emotions rather than the law rule we are lost - Mary Warnock | Conflict cannot survive without your participation - Wayne Dyer | One who keeps the capacity to see beauty never grows old - Franz Kafka | Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent - Isaac Asimov | Being right is a lonesome place to be... | Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime - Gordon Liddy | Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state - Noam Chomsky | Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money - Cree proverb | Politicians and diapers have one thing in common - they should both be changed regularly and for the same reason | Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - MLK | A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate - Bertrand Russell | Dennis Kucinich is too good for the US Congress; he is like a preacher lost in a brothel - Mujeriego | A man with a big hammer sees every problem as a nail - Amos Oz | One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other - Jane Austen | Only when you love something, you care about it | When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die - JP Sartre | Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance - Oscar Wilde | A bohemian is one who can survive where an animal would die - Franz Kline | A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain - Robert Frost | In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act - George Orwell | Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come | Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself - Friedrich Nietzsche | Love your enemies, in case your friends turn out to be bastards | Freedom means knowing how big your cage is - Cheng Yizhong | It's when the tide goes out that you find out who has been swimming naked - Warren Buffet | Any excuse will serve a tyrant | A lie will travel around the world before the truth can get its boots on | Every saint has a past and every sinner a future - Oscar Wilde | Palestinians are the first occupied people to be placed under economic sanctions | Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity - Barbara Boxer | Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, simple minds discuss people | There is no Clash of Civilizations - there is a clash of the uncivilized | We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children - Jimmy Carter | After every victory you have more enemies | Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth - Albert Einstein | There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people - Howard Zinn | As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand - Josh Billings | Violence can only be concealed by a lie and the lie can only be maintained by violence - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | If you are going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill | One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses | It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder - Albert Einstein | Old men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die - Herbert Hoover | It's an unhappy country that needs heroes - Bertolt Brecht | "Natalie Maines is one of those people born middle finger first" | We have a God who is always biased in favour of the oppressed - Desmond Tutu | A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people - JFK | "My country right or wrong" is like saying "My mother drunk or sober" | Those who do not move, do not notice their chains - Rosa Luxemburg | Silence is complicity | When life gives you lemons, make lemonade | 2 hours of try and error can save 10 minutes of manual reading | Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire | I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend...