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Resources and information on fighting corporate power,
democratizing our
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"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
strength and to bid defiance to the laws of their country." - Thomas Jefferson,
letter to George Logan. November 12, 1816.
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"The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any word in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined."
– Soren Kierkegaard |
"...The problem of the electorate is far deeper, far more vital than the continuance in the Presidency of any individual. For the greater issue goes beyond units of humanity; it goes to humanity itself...." "...Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob..." – President
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Cowardice asks the question:
Is it safe?
Expediency asks the question:
Is it politic?
Vanity asks the question:
Is it popular?
But conscience asks the question:
Is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor
politic, nor popular -- but he must take it simply because conscience tells him
it is right.
– Martin Luther King Jr., from his
address,
"To Chart Our Course for the Future"
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...how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the
classes. If you are to be a truly Christian nation you must solve this problem.
You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on
an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can
accept. You can work within the framework of democracy to bring about a better
distribution of wealth. You can use your powerful economic resources to wipe
poverty from the face of the earth. – Martin Luther King Jr.,
from
Paul's Letter to American Christians |
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Lord, in the complex arena of human relations,
help us to make choices
on the side of love, not hate;
on the side of inclusion, not exclusion;
tolerance, not intolerance.
And as we leave this mountain top,
help us to hold
on to the
spirit of fellowship and the
oneness of our family.
– Rev. Joseph Lowery,
Jan. 20, 2009,
from his inaugural benediction.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms in not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
- Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16,1953 |
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9 People who want to get
rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires
that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
10 For the love of money
is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from
the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. Paul's Charge to Timothy
11 But you, man of God,
flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance
and gentleness.
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1 Timothy 6:9-11 |
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Give until it hurts,
because real love hurts.
– Mother Teresa: In My Own Words |
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There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do
with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
– 1 John 4:18 |
...do not worry about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will worry about
itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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Matthew 6:34 |
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
– Albert Einstein |
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly
submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his
intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in
clear form. – Albert Einstein |
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Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind. – Albert Einstein |
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Force always attracts men of low morality. – Albert Einstein |
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to
perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
– Albert Einstein |
If people are good only because
they fear punishment, and
hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed. – Albert Einstein |
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." –
Plato, ancient
Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347
BC) |
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. -
Albert Einstein |
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And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
– Matthew 6:5‑6 |
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They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a
little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin
Franklin |
... asking His
blessing and His help,
but knowing that, here on earth,
God's work must
truly be our own.
– John
F. Kennedy |
