“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon”—Matthew 6:24
“[T]he form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.”—John Adams
“The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.”—Voltairine de Cleyre
“The true task is to unite and organize all workers on an economic basis, and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves, who must grow strong”—Helen Keller
“Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.”—Ronald Reagan
“An attack on workers’ collective bargaining rights is the same as an attack on farmers’ collective bargaining rights!”–Joel Greeno
“The great object should be to combat the evil: 1. By establishing a political equality among all. 2. By withholding unnecessary opportunities from a few, to increase the inequality of property, by an immoderate, and especially an unmerited, accumulation of riches. 3. By the silent operation of laws, which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.”—James Madison
“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”—Louis Brandeis
“History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.”—Cesar Chavez
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”—Aldo Leopold
“A revolutionary ecology movement must also organize among poor and working people…a revolutionary ideology in the hands of working people can bring that system to a halt. For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.”—Judi Bari
“The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution. “—Bobby Seale
“Men did not make the earth… It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property… Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.”—Thomas Paine
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”—Angela Davis
“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned.”—Gloria Steinem
“The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.”—Thomas Paine
“I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.”—Eugene V. Debs
“Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”—Huey Long
“I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few”—Eleanor Roosevelt
“Personally I’m in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions in the society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism we can’t have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.”—Noam Chomsky
“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”—Abraham Lincoln
“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil”—Albert Einstein
“Capitalism will inevitably find itself face to face with a starving multitude of unemployed workers demanding food or destruction of the social order that has starved them and robbed them of their jobs”—Helen Keller
“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.”—Angela Davis
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”—Malcolm X
“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most – that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.”—Eugene V. Debs
“Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need”—Acts 2:44-45
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”—Karl Marx
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”—Abigail Adams
“Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.”—Mikhail Gorbachev
“Real Christians will abstain from violating the rights of others.”—John Jay
“Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.”—George Mason
“The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.”—Alexis Carrel
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“…My soul magnifies the Lord,
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
And exalted the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
And the rich He has sent away empty.”—Luke 1:46,52-53
“I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.”—Rosa Parks
“I feel that if we don’t change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.”—Patch Adams
“Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deliver the poor and needy;
Free them from the hand of the wicked.”—Psalm 82:3–4
