Quotes Throughout History

‎"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
- Thomas Paine

"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause..."
- Emma Goldman

"If we don't speak up, we are cowards and accomplices."
- Judith Hertog

"The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone."
- James Madison

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
- Henry David Thoreau

"I ain't no communist, and I ain't no socialist...
I ain't no capitalist, and I ain't no imperialist...
I ain't no democrat ... sure as FUCK ain't no republican either.
I only know one party, and that is freedom."
- Eddie Vedder & Stevie Van Zant

"The more corrupt the state, the numerous the laws."
- Tacitus

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt."
- Mahatma Gandhi

“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
- Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

"...the Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough."
-Ralph Nader

"...tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right... making use of the power anyone has in his hands; not for the good of those, who are under it, but for his own private separate advantage... his own ambition, revenge, covetousness..."
- John Locke



"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope...build(ing) a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
- Robert F. Kennedy

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. ”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.