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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance.

H. Jackson Brown

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Abbie Hoffman

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Martin Niemˆller

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

The most important political office is that of private citizen.

Louis Brandeis

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Abbie Hoffman

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

Abbie Hoffman

It's a fool who plays it cool by making this world a little colder.

Beatles

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Naomi Klein

Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

Live and work to make a difference, to make things better, even the smallest things. Give full consideration to the rights and interests of others. No business is successful, even if it flourishes, in a society that does not care for or about its people.

Eugene C. Dorsey

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act

George Orwell

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Richard Stallman

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Abbie Hoffman

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

Emma Goldman

Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The will to act is a renewable resource.

Al Gore

I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die-- the dream of freedom and peace.

Rosa Parks

Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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