“Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and a terrible master.” -George Washington

“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” Thomas Jefferson

“But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.”
– Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country, Chapter 35.

America’s at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

.– Claire Wolfe

“Activism is my rent for living on this planet” –

Alice Walker

From Roderick’s Journal:

“A website is a wonderful invention that lets people you neither know nor care about to tell you what they had for breakfast that morning, without all that mucking about in the postal system.” – Marvin the Paranoid Android, from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“You can’t break a man that don’t borrow.”
– Will Rogers

Government “education has torn us from our moorings, our training has made us hug the very chains that bind us.” -M. K. Gandhi quoted in Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973), p. 57.

From Nonviolent Jesus, a blog by a member of the Catholic peace movement:

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass

“One should not be too straightforward. Go and see the forest. The straight trees are cut down, the crooked ones are left standing.”

Kautilya, Indian political philosopher of the third century,