…Quotes

“…You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”—Mark 12:31

“This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.”—Woody Guthrie

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”—Declaration of Independence

“We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence…People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”—Franklin Roosevelt

“Unbridled capitalism has run amok and is killing us all — spiritually, emotionally, and physically. It cannot be sustained…”—Ramesh Rao

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”—U. S. Constitution

“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed”—Luke 4:18

“The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.”—Emma Goldman

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”—Thomas Jefferson

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”—George Orwell

“I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.”—Thomas Paine

‎”Socialism is the economic realization of the Christian gospel.”—William Temple

‎”The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.”—Theodore Roosevelt

“Man becomes conscious of himself and his humanity only in society and only by the collective action of the whole society. He frees himself from the yoke of external nature only by collective and social labor, which alone can transform the earth into an abode favorable to the development of humanity. Without such material emancipation the intellectual and moral emancipation of the individual is impossible.”—Mikhail Bakunin

“We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.”—Dorothy Day

“We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.”—Huey Newton

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” —Thomas Jefferson

“We swapped the tyrant 3,000 miles away for a handful of financial slaveowning overlords who make the tyrant of Great Britain seem mild.”—Huey Long

“The princes of these new economic dynasties concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other people’s labor. These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power.”—Franklin Roosevelt

“Plutocracy is abhorrent to a republic; it is more despotic than monarchy, more heartless than aristocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It preys upon the nation in time of peace and conspires against it in the hour of its calamity.”—William Jennings Bryan

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation”—Bertrand Russell

“If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.”—Leviticus 25:35

“Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed”—Voltairine de Cleyre

“The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another’s labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live”—Leo Tolstoy

“Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen. “—Woody Guthrie

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”—Eugene V. Debs

‎”Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”—Murray Bookchin

“Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person”—David Cobb