Quotes of the month:

"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war" (MLK)

The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.  (Nelson Mandela)

 The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Steve Biko)

I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate - that we could mould our lives into any form we pleased…I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that everyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life’s struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about…I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone. (Helen Keller)

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and   lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.  (Frederick Douglass)

This country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. (Helen Keller - 1911)

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Steve Biko - One of the foremost figures in South Africa's Struggle for liberation from the apartheid regime)

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world-and never will. 
Mark Twain (1835-1910)