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| "God hath so disposed of the condition of mankind, as in all times some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity; others mean and in submission" |
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| "The rich and might should no eat up teh poor, nor the poor and despised rise up against and shake off their yoke" |
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| "Thirdly, the law of nature would give no rules for dealing with enemies, for all are to be considered as friends in the state of innocence, but the gospel commands love to an enemy" |
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| "this love is the fulfilling of the law, not that it is enough to love our brother and so no further" |
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| "to seek out a place of cohabitation and consortship under a due form of government both civil and ecclesiastical. in such cases as this, the care of the public must oversway all private respects" |
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| "we must knit together..as one man..to abridge ourselfs of our superfluities, for the supply of others' necessities...make others' conditions our own. For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God...we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world" |
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| John Winthrop - MOST IMPORTANT |
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| "a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT...times makes more converts the reason" |
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| "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil... government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence" |
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| "let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth...a thousand motics will excite them theretol the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another who in his turn requires the same" |
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| "a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, freedom and security...that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be discovered, the easier repaired when disordered" |
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| "Europe and not England is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from EVERY PART of Europe" |
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| "you can hereafter love, honour, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land?" |
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| "To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, whcih when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be look upon as folly and childishness" |
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| "In American the law is king. For as in absolute governments, the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King, and there ought to be no other" |
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| "Were a manifesto to be published, and despatched to foreign courts, setting forth the miseries we have endured, and the peaceful methods which we have ineffectually used for redress...such a memorial would produce more good effects to this continent that if a ship were freighted with petitions in Britain" |
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| "For the libes of men are too valuable to be cast away on such trifles. It is the violence whcih is done and threatened to our persons; the destruction of our property by an armed force; the invasion of our country by fire and sword, which conscientiously qualifies the use of arms" |
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| "Advantages promised by a well construcuted Union...than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction" |
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| Madison - Federalists #10 |
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| "the instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have in truth been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere" |
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| Madison - Federalists #10 |
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| "the latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man" |
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| Madison - Federalists #10 |
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| "when a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government...enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens" |
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| Madison - Federalists #10 |
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| “becoming tired of gov that offers no protection....and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose..the strongest bulwark of any gov, and of those constituted like ours.. i mean the attachment of the people” |
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| “let reverence for the laws...become the political religion of the nation...while ever a state of feeling, such as this, shall universally, or even, very generally, prevail throughout the nation, vain will be the effort and fruitless every attempt to subvert our national freedom” |
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| “some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost..spring up among us? it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the gov and laws, and generally intelligent to successfully frustrate his designs” |
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| "swear by blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others" |
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| Abraham Lincoln - IMPORTANT |
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| "american gov. is only a tradition endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity but each instant losing some of its integrity" |
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| “it is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right” |
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| “they have no doubt that it is damnable business in which they are concerned, they are all peaceably inclined.. the mass of men serve the state.. as machines..put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones” |
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| “how does it become a man to behave toward this american gov today? i answer he cannot without disgrace be associate with it. i cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my gov which is the slave's gov also.” |
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| "Action from principle - the perception and performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary” |
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| "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prisom" |
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| “america has yet morally and aristically originated nothing..the writers of a time hint the mottoes of its gods. the word of the modern, say these voices, is the world culture” |
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| "I should demand of this programme of culture, drawn out, not for a single class alone, or for the parlors or lecture rooms, but with an eye to practical life, the west, the working-men...with reference to the perfect equality of women" |
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| "to practically enter into politics is an important part of American personalism" |
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| “with such, and nothing less, we suggest that the new world literature, fit to rise upon, cohere, and signalize in time these states” |
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| "it is the fashion among dilettants and fops (perhaps I myself am not guiltless), to decry the whole formulation of the active politics of america, beyond redemption, and to be carefully kept away from. see you that you do not fall into this error" |
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| “as for you, i advise you to enter more strongly yet into politics...disengage yourself from parties” |
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| "it needs tally and express Nature, and the spirit of nature, and to know and obey the standards. I say the question of nature, largely considered, involves the questions of the esthetic, the emotional, and religious-and involves happiness...must furnish the pervading atmosphere to poems" |
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| "democracy grows rankly up the thickest, noxious, deadliest plants and fruits of all -- brings worse and worse invaders -- needs newer, larger, stronger, keener compensations and compellers" |
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| “this fourth of july is your, not mine...what to the american slave is ur 4th of july? i answer; a day that reveals to him..the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. to him ur celebrations is a sham..” |
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| Frederick Douglass - IMPORTANT |
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| “as that of a pro-slavery character of the constitution. in that instrument i hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but interpreted, as it ought to be interpreted, that constitution is a glorious liberty document” |
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| “i hold that every american citizen has right to form an opinion of the constitution, and to propagate that opinion, and to use al honorable means to make his opinion the prevailing one” |
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| i hear “...you and your brother abolitionist fail to make a favorable on the public mind. would you argue more, and denounce less, would you persuade more and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to success” |
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| “he then resolved that he would never have anything to do w any war, unless it were a war for liberty...he had courage to face his country herself, when she was in the wrong...this man was an exception, for he did not set up even a political graven image between him and his god” |
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| “he did not value his bodily life in comparison with ideal things. he did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid" |
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| “the politician assets that the only proper way by which deliverance is to be obtained, is by 'the quiet diffusion of the sentiments of humanity,' w/o any ''outbreak.” As if the sentiments of humanity were ever found unaccompanied by its deeds...” |
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| “when we heard he was dead, one of my townsmen observed that “he died as a fool dieth”; which...suggested a likeness in him dying to my neighbor living. Others..said...that 'he threw his life away,' because he resisted the gov...i hear another ask 'what will he gain by it?' a if he expected to fill his pockets by this enterprise. such as one has no idea of gain but in this worldly sense...no doubt you an get more in your market for a quart of milk than a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heros carry their blood to” |
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| “when a gov puts forth its strength on the side of injustice, as ours to maintain slavery and kill the liberators of the slave, it reveals itself a merely brute force, or worse,a demonical force” |
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| “if private men are obliged to perform the offices of gov. to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the gov. becomes only a hired man...to perform menial or indifferent services” |
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| “these men, in teach us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live” ( |
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| “the talk as if it were impossible that a man could be 'divinely appointed' in these days to do any work whatever; as if vows and religion were out of date as connected with any man's daily work; as if the agent to abolish slavery could only be somebody appointed by the president, or by some political party” |
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| “is it not possible that an individual may be right and a gov wrong?.....are judges to interpret the law according o the latter....? |
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| “as for the union-where is it and what is it? in ½ of it no man can exercise freedom of speech or the press- no man can utter the words of Washington, of Jefferson, of Patrick Henry-except at the peril of his life” |
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| “i tell you our work is the dissolution of this slavery cursed union, if we would have frightened of our liberties left to us! the slaveholder with his hands dripping in blood-will i make a compact with him?...no, never...we cannot carry them out for the sake of their evil company....“by the dissolution of the union we shall give the finishing blow to the slave system...freedom everyone....” |
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| “that little piece of yellow metal, which would keep without wasting or decay, should be worth a great piece of flesh, or a whole heap of corn” |
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| "the invention of money, and the tacit agreement of men to put a value on it, introduced (by consent) larger possessions, and a right to them...” |
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| “bread, wine and cloth, are things of daily use, and great plenty; yet notwithstanding, acorns, water and leaves or skins, must be our bread, drink and clothing, did not labour furnish us with these more useful commodities...” |
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| “he who appropriate lands to himself by his labour, does not lessen, but increase the common stock of mankind: for the provisions serving to the support of human life, produced by one acre of enclosed and cultivated land, are ten times more than those...lying waste in common” |
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| “but since gold and silver...has its value only from the consent of men..men have agreed to disproportionate and unequal possession of the eat...by a tactic and voluntary consent” |
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| “it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish...rather it is whether the scheme has vitality enough to leave the stagnant waters of the old and build, as well as sustain, new life..anarchism is indeed practical..it is helping to do away with the wrong and the foolish” |
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| most violent of society is ignorance; that its power of destruction is the very thing anarchism is combating? nor is he aware that anarchism..destroys, not healthful tissue, but parasitic growths that feed on the life's essence of society” |
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| “that god, the state and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination” |
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| "anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth..” |
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| “the individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages, each striving for supremacy, because each was blind to the value and importance of the other...anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature but in man. there is no conflict between the individual and the social instincts..” |
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| “a natural law is that favor in man which asserts itself freely and spontaneously without any external force, in harmony with the requirements of nature...its expression needs not the machinery of government...to obey such laws, if we may call it obedience, requires only spontaneity and free opportunity. that governments do not maintain themselves through such harmonious factors is proven by the terrible array of violence, force, and coercion all government use in order to live” |
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| "religion, the dominion of the human mind; property, the dominion of human needs, and government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement" |
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| “the greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weakness of human nature...with human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?” |
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| I don't know the exact quote but some quote but if anything mentions AGITATION its referring to WHITMAN |
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| “on the basis of political economy itself...the worker sinks to the level of a commodity and becomes indeed the most wretched of commodities” |
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| “the worker becomes an even cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates the de-evalutation of the world of men is of direct proportion to the increasing value of the world of things. labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity” |
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| “the alienation of the worker in his product means not only that his labor becomes an object, an external existence, but that it exists outside him, independently as something alien to him and that it becomes a power on its own confronting him it means that the life which he has conferred on the object confronts him as a something hostile and alien" |
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| "he worker becomes a servant of his object, first, in that he receives an object of labor, in that he receives work, and secondly in that he receives means of subsistence.. the height of this servitude is that it is only as a worker that he can maintain himself as a physical subject and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker" |
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| first what is should not be: labor is external to the worker, it does not belong to his intrinsic nature...he does not affirm himself but denies himself..he feels at home when he is not working..his labor is therefore not voluntary but coerced it is forced labor. it is therefore not the satisfaction of a need; it is merely a means to satisfy external to it...its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that as soon as no physical or other compulsion exists labor is shunned like the plague...the external character of labor for the worker appears in the fact that hit is not his own, but someone else's that it does not belong to him, that in it he belongs, not to himself but to another |
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| "as a result therefore man only feels himself freely active in his animal functions-eating drinking procreating or at most in his dwelling and in dressing up and in his human functions he no longer feels himself to be anything but an animal" |
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| "for labor life activity productive life itself appears to man in the first place merely as a means of satisfying a need the need to maintaining physical existence. yet the productive life is the life of a species...the whole character of a species, its species character, is containing in the character of its life activity; and free, conscious activity is a man's species-character...conscience life activities distinguishes man immediately from animal life activity it is just because of this his activity free activity. Estranged labor reverses the relationship, so that it is just because man is conscious being that he makes his life activity, his essential being a mere means to existence” |
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| "the object of labor is therefore the objectification of man's species-life; for he duplicates himself not only, as in consciousness, intellectually, but also actively, in reality, and therefore he sees himself in a world that he has created. In tearing away from man the object of his production, therefore, estranged labot tears fro mhim his species-life, his real objectivity as a member of the species and trasnforms his advantage over animals into the disadvantage that his inorganic body, nature, is taken from him" |
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| "an immediate consequence of the fact that man is estranged from the product of his labor, from his life activity, from his species-being, is the estrangement of man from man...in fact that proposition that man's species-nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man's essential nature" |
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| "Private property thus results by analysis from the concept of alienated labor, alienated man, of estranged labor, of estranged life, of estranged man...but on analysis of this concept it becomes clear that though private property appears to be the reason, the cause of alienated labor, it is rather its consequence, just as the gods are originally not the cause but the effect of man's intellectual confusion" |
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| "From the relationship of estranged labor to private property it follows further that the emancipation of society from private property, etc. from servitude is expressed in the political form of the emancipation of the workers, not that their emancipation alone is at stake, but because the emancipation of the workers contains universal human" |
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| "where is the part in the opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of cummunism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?" |
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| "society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other -- bourgeoisie and proletariat" |
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| "We see therefore how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development...of product and of exchange" |
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| "[The market] has resolved personal worth into exchange value...has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- Free Trade...for exploitation" |
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| almost anything about bourgeoise, proletariat, working class is going to be Marx |
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| "When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity. When christian ideals succumbed in the eighteenth century to rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie. The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge" |
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| "The communist disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win" |
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| Web Du Bois - anything relating to veil, double consciousness, second sight ... too many quotes to make cards for but will most likely be on those ideas |
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| Web Du Bois - Souls of Black Folk |
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| "I may not be able to say all i think...I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets..if it had not been for the men and women who, in the past, have had the moral courage to go to jail, we would still be in the jungles" |
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| "Well, not for myself, I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety" |
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| "The socialists of Ohio, it appears, are very much alive this year. The party has been killed recently, which, no doubt, accounts for its extraordinary activity. There is nothing that helps the socialist party so mcuh as receiving an occasional deathblow. The oftener it is killed the more active, the more energetic, the more powerful it becomes" |
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| "They who are animated by the unconquerable spirit of the social revolution; they who have the moral courage to stand erect and assert their convictions; stand by them; fight for them; go to jail or to hell or them, if need be- they are writing their names...in faceless letters in the history of mankind" |
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| "They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity, it is an exceedingly serious mater...for every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor, and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people" |
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| "Every solitary one of these artistocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These autocrats, these tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face o face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims-they are the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight." |
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| "These are not palatable truths to them. They do not like to hear them; and what is more they do not want you to hear them. And that is why they brand us as undesirable citizens, and as disloyalists and traitors...It is precisely because we are is loyal to the traitors that we are loyal to the people of this nation" |
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| "And so in our great democracy, under our free institutions, they flatter our press by suppressionl and they ignorantly imagine that they have silenced revolutionary propaganda in the U.S....thousands of people who had never before heard of our papers are now inquiring for and insisting upon seeing them. They have succeeded only in arousing curiosity in our literature and propaganda. |
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| "Every blow they strike at the socialist movement reacts upon themselves. Every time they strike at us they hit themselves. It never fails. Every time they strangle a socialist paper they add a thousand voices proclaiming the truth of the principles of socialism and the ideals of the socialist movement. They help us in spite of themselves. |
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| "to be class-conscious, and to realize that, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color or sex, every man, every woman who toils, who renders useful service, every member of the working class without an exception, is my comrade, my brother and sister - and that to serve them and their cause is the highest duty of my life" |
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| "wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder...they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street go to war. The feudal barons of the middle ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day declared wards. and their miserable serfs fought all the battles...the master class has always declared wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose-especially their lves" |
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| "They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people...if war is right let it be declared by the people/ You who have your lives to lose, you certainly above all others have the right to decide the momentous issue of war or peace" |
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| "There is no room in our hearts for hate, except for the system, the social system in which it is possible for one man to amass a stupendous fortune doing nothing, while millions of others suffer and struggle and agonize and die for the bare necessities of existence" |
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| "As long as their is misery caused by robbery at the bottom there wil be assassination at the top" |
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| You cannot do your duty by proxy. You have got to do it yourself and do it squarely and then as you look yourself in the face you will have no occasion to blush" |
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| "you need to know that it is your duty to rise above the animal place of existence. You need to know that it is for you to know something about literature and science and art. You need to know that you are verging on the edge of a great new worlds....you will be exploited..." |
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| "I am always amused to the discussion of the 'intellectual' phase of this question. It is the same old standard under which the rank and file are judged. What would become of the sheep if hey had no shepherd to lead them out of the wilderness into the land of milk and honey?" |
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| "THey are continually talking about your partiotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. there is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches" |
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| "Now what you workers need is to organize, not along craft lines but along revolutionary industrial lines. All of you workers in a given industry, regardless of your trade or occupation, should belong to one and the same union...politiical action and industrial action must supplement and sustain each other. You would never vote the socialist republic into existence. you will have to lay its foundations in industrial organization" |
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| "Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth" |
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| "this is no time for fine words, but a time to lift one's voice against the savagery of a people who claim to be the dispensers of deomcracy....American that hs been ringing the bells of the world, proclaiming to the nations and the peoples thereof that she has democracy to give to all...has hrself no satisfaction o give 12,000,000 of her own citizens except the satisfaction of a farcical inquiry that will end where it begun, over the brutal murder of men, women, and children for no other reason than that they are black people seeking an industrial change in a country that they have labored for 3 hundred years to make great" |
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| "published under big headlines in the news papers, so that the negros could read that they were not wanted in East St. Louis, but that did not deter the blackmen of Louisiana who were looking for better opportunities in the land of their birth going about the country looking for better conditions in the south offered with lynching and Jim Crowism" |
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| "I can hardly see why black men should be debarred from going where they choose in the land of their birth" |
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| “Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. /injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” |
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| “We had no alternative except to prepare for direct actions, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community...why direct action? why sit ins? marches? and so far? isn't negotiation a better path? indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. nonviolent direct actions seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue” |
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| “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed franky l I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was 'well timed' in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. for years now I have heard the world 'Wait!” it rings in the ear of every negro with piercing familiarity” |
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| “...when you see the vast majority of your 20 million negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your 6 year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park...and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people” |
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| “You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws...one may well ask: how can you advocate breaking some laws and obey others? The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust...how does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is manmade code that squares with the moral law or the law of god. an unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law” |
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| “an unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. this is difference made legal. by the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. this is sameness made legal” |
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| "One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law" |
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| "I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride towards freedom is not the white citizen's counciler or the KKK, but the white modertate who is more devoted to "order" than justice" |
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| "such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of the time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself, is neutral: it can be used either destructively or constructively." |
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| "If his repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence, this is not a threat but a fact of history. So i have not said to my people: get rid of your discontent. rather I have tried to say that this normal and health discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action." |
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| "one day the south will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the constitution and declaration of independence" |
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| "I believe in action in all fronts by whatever means necessary" |
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| “I'm not a politician....I don't even consider myself an American....I see an American nightmare” |
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| “...when white people are evenly divided and black people have a block of votes of their own, it is left up to them to determine whos going to sit in the white house and whos going to sit in the dog house [..]they get all the negro vote and after they get it, the negro gets nothing in return" |
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| "This is not even a government that's based on democracy. It is a government that is made up of rep. of the people. Half of the people in the South Can't event vote." |
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| How can you thank a man for giving you whats already yours? How then can you thank him givin you only part of what's already yours? You haven't even made progress, its what's being given to you, you should have had already." |
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| "I don't mean to go out and get violent.. I am not responsible for what I do" |
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| Civil rights keep you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket. Ciil rights means you're asking Uncle Sam to treat you right. Human right are something you were born with. Human rights are your god-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth" |
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| "African-Americans- that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Afriacns. In fact, you'd get father calling yourself African instead of negro" |
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| “a living document open to change with our times and experiences. It is a begriming in our own debate and education…. Uncomfortably to the world we inherit.” |
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| SDS (students for a democratic society) |
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| “first, the permeating and victimizing…of our common peril, might die at any time” |
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| “Although mankind desperately needs revolutionary leadership, American rests in national stalemate…. What we had seen as the American Golden Age was actually the decline of an era” |
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| “our work is guided by a sense…. And the world as eternally functional parts” |
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| “the questions we might want raised—what is really important?.... are not thought to be questions of a fruitful, empirical nature, and thus are brushes aside” |
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| “we regard men as indefinitely precious and possessed of unfulfilled capacities for freedom, reason, and love….. nor do we deify man- we merely have faith in his potential” |
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| “the goal of man and society should be human independence….. an ability and willingness to learn” |
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| “human interdependence is contemporary fact. Human brotherhood must be willed…. Teacher to student, American to Russian.” |
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| “we should replace power rooted in possession, privilege, or circumstance……two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life; that society be organized to encourage independence in men and provide the media for their common participation” |
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| “though many of us are affluent, poverty, waste, elitism, manipulation are to manifest and go unnoticed……a poverty of vision, and a poverty of political action to make that vision reality” |
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| "The group openly supported the philosophy of deep ecology and radicalized the environmental movement by promoting non-violent direct action,civil disobedience, and ecotage as legitimate political tactics in defending the earth..but i was not meant to confront and alter the economic, social, or political world in its totality" |
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| "Elf would attempt: (1) to cause as much economic damage as possible to a given entity that is profiting off the destruction of the natural environment and life for selfish greed and profit. (2) To educate the public on the atrocities committed against the environment and life. (3)To take all precautions against harming life" |
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| "In addition, ELF ecotage is also meant to question and confront the social, economic, and political realities of the world to undermine them through their active problematization. That is part of what marks the move from a radical to a revolutionary environmentalism" |
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| "The central tenet is that the natural world has intrinsic values separate from its value to humans. To a deep ecologist, the current horrors of capitalism and western civilization are the byproducts of the human disconnection from the natural world, which is typified by the anthropocentric thinking...deep ecology it is only with the return....deep ecological political theory tends to believe that local decisions should be made locally and regional decisions should be federalized upwards" |
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| "Technology is not inherently oppressive, as many green anarchists and at least some deep ecologists argue. What matters..are the social relationships and power dynamics surrounding the generation and use of such technology. Therefore, technological advances are not inherently oppressive but only become so through the development of power relationships, such as private ownership and specialization that are their context" |
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| "Green anarchism contends that civilization, along with domestication, is responsible for environmental destruction and human subjugation...to green anarchists, the need for external resources is why civilization orginates in conquest abroad and repression at home...in other words, our social system-morality, work, and education-domesticates and placates humanity for the benefit of the social order. To green anarchists, this domestication removes spontaneity, passion, freedom, and liberty from life " |
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| "the flexibility of ELF ideology should allow their ideology to shift pragmatically according to the political climate and thereby allow them to remain politically influential far longer than they might otherwise as a militant group on the margins of mainstream environmental struggle" |
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| "Domestic terrorism is the unlawful use, or threatened use, of violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the U.S. without foreign direction, committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives" |
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| "the FBI defines eco-terrorism as the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature" |
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| "Despite the destructive aspects of ALF's operations, its operational philosophy discourages acts that harm "any animal, human, and nonhuman." Animal rights groups in the US including LAF have generaly adhered to this mandate" |
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| "Describing someone as a "terrorist" serves an explicitly rhetorical purpose in contemporary discourse, through the very language and imagery the term conjures obscure its rational analysis: it implies a moral claim for their aggressive pursuit and prosecution unconstrained by the conventional limits set upon miltiary or law enforcement action" |
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| "Should radical environmentalists who commit acts of ecotage - sabotage of inanimate objects that ontribute to ecological destruction - be equated with sociapaths who regard the slaughter of innocents as "collateral damage" in an ideological war? Second, insofar as ecotage might be treated as an intermediate case between terrorism and nonviolent civil disobedience might ecotage ever be defensible as a tactic of justified political resistance? Might ecotage be defended as not only a morally permissible but also morally required?" |
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| "Terrorism is conventionally defined as the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature...through intimidation coercion of instilling fear" |
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| "Insofar as ecotage targets only property of specific offenders, it lacks the randomness of genuine terrorism. Not only are persons themselves not targeted but also ordinary persons need not fear for their property" |
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| "The legal definition of terrorism under US law has a part of the 2001 USA Patriot Act to include attacks against inanimate objets" |
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| "the participants in the Boston Tea Party willfully destroyed property in order to retaliate against government conduct and so must be guilty of exactly the kind of terrorism now proscribed under the PATRIOT Act. Once harm to property interests is allowed to count as the equivalent to harm to persons in the moral assessment of terrorism, one begins on a perilous slope down which this initial expansion leads inevitably to a trivialization of what ought to be among the most serious moral transgressions by association with far less serious offenses" |
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| "To dissociate ecotage from terrorism is not to defend the action sof the LEF, nor is it to suggest that the group's tactics may sometimes serve as legit forms of protest or vehicles for change. The intentional destruction of property constitutes a violation of rights regardless of whether committed from simple malice or a well-meaning commitment to ecological sustainability" |
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| "First, that it must demonstrate fidelity to law while calling attention to a particular injustice, and second that it is premised upon the priority of good faith negotiation, in that efforts at negoiation should first be made and that the targeted disobedience has as its goal the return to negotiations" |
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| "The problem, lies in weighing two distinct moral offenses and endorsing one if a necessary condition for avoiding the other. this claim is based on a familiar judgement about the obligations of citizenship. This claim is based on the familiar judgement about the obligations of citizenship: persons have a duty to follow just laws but to oppose unjust ones" |
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| "A morally relventa difference from the established case for civil disobedience, and suggests a further objection insofar as it violates the obligation to engage in good faith negotiations before resorting to prima facie objectionable extralegal tactics using the latter only in order to return to the former. At this point, several dissimilarities between nonviolent civil disobedience" |
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| "Ecotage should never be used before both legal and nonviolent extralegal tactics have been exhausted not only for the practical reason that such tactics undermine ongoing negotiations and alienate political constituencies rather than cultivate them as potential forces of change, but also because a more objectionable tactic can never be ethically justified if a lesser one will do" |
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| "Appropriate only in societies where serious injustices are more broadly tolerated, where political processes are unresponsive to public opinion, or where rhetorical appeals are otherwise unlikely to produce positive effects" |
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| "Application of ecotage as a tactic of poliical resistance: (1) some act is being undertaken which is contrary to both law and justice (2) state officials charged with enforcing relevant laws are unwilling or unable to do so (3) serious damage is imminent and, once complete, will be durable and irreversible (4) legal means were attempted and proved unsuccessful and (5) appeals to the sense of justice of the community have either already failed or would be frustrated by the unresponsive policy making or enforcement processes" |
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