The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Thirty of the largest companies in the United States are now spending more on lobbying than they pay in federal taxes. ~ Elizabeth Warren Not all of our elections are rigged, but all of our elections are riggable. ~ Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. âNever, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.â ~ Martin Luther King Jr. The only real shot you have at changing the world is by changing the people in the world. ~ David Wilcock The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about. "This is a government facility, we're paid here to look for answers, not to find them." ~ director at government energy research lab "Yes there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. And there is some group of people. . . attempting to conceal this knowledge or not permit it to be widely disseminated." ~ Edgar Mitchell, Astronaut, (May, 1998) âIt is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.â ~ Benjamin Franklin To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead ~ Thomas Paine There is something morally wrong with a nation that will take food, medical care, even heat in the winter from the people, yet spends trillions on weapons of war. If the top 1% already own wealth equal to 90% of the rest of us, then why do they need more wealth before they will create any jobs? If I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange. ~ Dr. Robert Hare We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. You are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist attack. ~ Data from 2004 National Safety Council I don't mind you being rich. I mind you buying my government. Warning! Religious Freedom Means ANY Religion "Please torture me the old way. Here they destroy people mentally and physically without leaving marks.â âThe White House is a straitjacket. You just wear it.â ~ Shaker Aamer - 10 Years in Guantánamo: British Resident Cleared for Release But Still Held When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you... to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is nonviolence and humor. ~-John Lennon There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. ~Mahatma Gandhi It wasn't raining, when Noah built the Ark. Your soul is worth more than your weight in gold. "This country does in fact have a serious deficit problem. But the reality is that the deficit was caused by two wars â unpaid for. It was caused by huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country. It was caused by a recession as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street. And if those are the causes of the deficit, I will be damned if weâre going to balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the sick, the children, and the poor. Thatâs wrong." â Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Senate Budget Committee, Nov. 18, 2011 Fear of Terror Makes People Stupid â You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack âYou are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack â You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack âYou are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist â You are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack ~ National Safety Council Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. ~Mahatma Gandhi Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ~Martin Luther King Jr. Being strong does not mean avoiding the truth. It means accepting it, learning about it, and dealing with it head on. Someday everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. One person can make a difference and every person should try. ~John F. Kennedy Medical school only teaches you disease management care, they do not teach you health care. ~Dr. Harvey Bigelsen It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." ~ Henry Ford You need to consider everything. Reality is much more bizarre than fiction. ~ Kerry Cassidy Q. What's the difference between a prisoner of war and a homeless person? A. Under the Geneva Convention, a prisoner of war is entitled to food, shelter and medical care. Only love stops hate. Being more conscious, being more friendly and caring, is not enough. It's really important, but consciousness is not a replacement for activism. The two need to go hand in hand. ... The number one imperative for your survival, is an accurate assessment of reality. ~ Foster Gamble THRIVE Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Albert Einstein "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." ~ George Orwell "What have we allowed ourselves to become? Are we no longer a nation of laws? Have we become instead a nation of men who make secret arrests? Are secret prisons now simply another tool of the federal government law enforcement?" ~ Ron Paul "Campaigns don't change politics and a president doesn't change the United States. It is up to us to take back our country." ~ John Perkins âThey talk about class warfare â the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years,â he said on MSNBCâs _Politics Nation_. âItâs a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country.â âAnd the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?â âSocial Security, Medicare and Medicaid are life and death for tens of millions of our people, weâve got to defend those programs.â ~ Bernie Sanders _http://dlvr.it/17HnmB_ (http://dlvr.it/17HnmB) âStill another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.â ~ Henry A. 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