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"Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing."
"John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university."
"Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another."
"If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved."
"Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise."
"Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still."
"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths."
"When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."
"Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors."
"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
"The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing."
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
"...without equality there can be no democracy."
"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth."
"A week is a long time in politics."
"Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived."
"Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money."
"It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live."
