”In
politics, an organized minority is a political
majority.
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When the people fear their government, there
is tyranny; when the government fears the people,
there is liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The
care of human life and happiness, and not their
destruction, is the first and only object of
good government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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The
spirit of resistance to government is so valuable
on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept
alive.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The
legitimate powers of government extend to such acts
only as they are injurious to others.
~ Thomas Jefferson
That
government is the strongest of which every man feels
himself a part.
~ Thomas Jefferson
“People
often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made
by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not
true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who
make themselves heard and who vote - a very different
thing.”
-- Walter H. Judd
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"The vision I see is not only a movement of
direct democracy, of self- and co-determination
and non-violence, but a movement in which politics
means the power to love and the power to feel
united on the spaceship Earth... In a world
struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further
development of non-violence - not only as a
philosophy but as a way of life, as a force
on the streets, in the market squares, outside
the missile bases, inside the chemical plants
and inside the war industry - becomes one of
the most urgent priorities."
-- Petra Kelly
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I
believe in an America where the separation of
church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic
prelate would tell the president (should he
be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister
would tell his parishoners for whom to vote
-- where no church or church school is granted
any public funds or political preference --
and where no man is denied public office merely
because his religion differs from the president
who might appoint him or the people who might
elect him.
-- John
F. Kennedy
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We must recognize that we can't solve our problems
now until there is a radical redistribution
of economic and political power.... a radical
restructuring of the architecture of American
society.
--
Martin Luther
King, Jr
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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 one must take it simply because it is
right. --
Martin Luther King,
Jr.
It's
very important to vote. People died for this right.
-- Lenny Kravitz
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Citizens
across the United States are now uniting in
a great cause to establish a Department of Peace,
seeking nothing less than the transformation
of our society, to make non-violence an organizing
principle, to make war archaic through creating
a paradigm shift in our culture for human development,
for economic and political justice and for violence
control.
-- Dennis Kucinich
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Some
believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian
regime and replace it with a democratic one is
through violent means. I would like to set the
precedent of political change through political
settlement, not through violence.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi
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“To
make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants,
not simply observers. One who does not vote has no
right to complain.”
-- Louis L'Amour
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There
can be no better measure of our governance
than the way we treat our children, and no
greater failing on our part than to allow
them to be subjected to violence, abuse or
exploitation.
-- Jessica Lange
Yes,
and you should question your government.
--
Jessica Lange
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…in
place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power,
a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible.
People of all faiths need to shape a political
and social movement that reaffirms the most generous,
peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and
loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the
human race.
-- Rabbi Michael
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It
is easy to think the State has a lot of different
objects -- military, political, economic, and what
not. But in a way things are much simpler than that.
The State exists simply to promote and to protect
the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life.
A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple
of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man
reading a book in his own room or digging in his own
garden -- that is what the State is there for. And
unless they are helping to increase and prolong and
protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies,
courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste
of time.
-- C. S. Lewis
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“Democracy is the government of the people,
by the people, for the people”
-- Abraham Lincoln
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The
prophecy of a world moving toward political unity
is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous,
most truly alive in the work of our time.
-- Walter Lippman
Whatever
the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our
safety arising from political suppression are always
greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from
political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.
-- Neil A. McDonald
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A
lot of political people, especially people on
the left, have forgotten the importance of humor
as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through
which to affect change.
-- Michael Moore
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has
serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral
basis of our democracy.
~ Ralph Nader
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However
difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of
world government, with agreed international law and
means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
-- John B. Orr
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