My Quotes Page

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist"
-Dom Helder Camara

"Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
-Eugene Debs

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
-George Orwell

"Question authority"
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"Workers of my fatherland, have faith in Chile and her destiny. Others will overcome this grey, sad moment when treason strains to conquer. Go forward knowing that much more sooner than later, the great avenues will open anew to let pass free people to build a better society."
-Last words of Salvador Allende

"There is no other definition of socialism for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man."
-Che Guevara

"You show me a capitalist and I'll show you a bloodsucker."
-Malcolm X

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

"It has been true all through history, the way you get a small group of people to be very rich is by getting a lot of other people to be very poor."
-Michael Parenti

"The earth is for all the people. That is the demand. The machinery of production and distribution for all the people. That is the demand. The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interest of all the people. That is the demand. The elimination of rent, interest, profit and the production of wealth to satisfy the wants of all the people. That is the demand. Cooperative industry in which all shall work together in harmony as the basis of a new social order, a higher civilization, a real republic. That is the demand. The end of class struggles and class rule, of master and slave, or ignorance and vice, of poverty and shame, of cruelty and crime -- the birth of freedom, the dawn of Brotherhood, the beginning of MAN. That is the demand."
-Eugene Debs

"Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.