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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978)
Today's News and Views 09-08-06
"You have to pay your workers enough to be able to afford your product." -Henry Ford
Union leader Walter
Reuther once visited an auto factory in Cleveland whose manager raved about
the company's plans for automation. The plant's many robots, he explained,
would work far more efficiently and inexpensively than their current - human
- workers.
"And tell me," Reuther finally said, interrupting the man's soliloquy on robotic glory, "these wonderful new robots - will they go out and buy cars from your company?"
The natural progression of government is toward tyranny.
- - Thomas Jefferson
“You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy, but you cannot have both.”
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941)
"Those will the power to make you believe absurdities have the power to make you commit atrocities. "
- Voltaire
“The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.”
- Adlai Stevenson, August 27, 1952
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to exist in this country.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"...if
by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who
welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the
welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their
jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties—if that is what they mean by
a “liberal,” then I am proud to be a liberal."
- John F. Kennedy
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
- Sinclair Lewis
Robert Hare’s definition of a psychopath:
‘Psychopaths are social predators who charm, manipulate, and ruthlessly plow their way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts, shattered expectations, and empty wallets. Completely lacking in conscience and in feelings for others, they selfishly take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret’.
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The Rockridge Manual
for Progressives
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Rockridge
Manual Project Description - The aim and scope of the Rockridge Manual for Progressives.
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The
Value of Values
- An early look at ideas from the Rockridge Manual for Progressives.
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Mapping
Out the Progressive Worldview: A Collective Effort
- A description of the collaborative data-gathering effort used for the Rockridge Manual for Progressives
Rep. Louise Slaughter's
report "America for Sale"
(pdf document)
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters… Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
-Frederick Douglass
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21,
1864
(letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
Ref: The
Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson
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