We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both.
- Justice Louis Brandeis

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
- Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

“Wherever I go I find…hundreds, thousands, more who are open to unorthodox ideas. But they tend not to know of one another’s existence…[T]he very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.”
- Howard Zinn, Independent Politics, Winter 2008

“Cuba is no longer engaged militarily in Latin America, and the SoViet Union no longer exists. STILL THE EMBARGO STANDS.”
The Advocate, Latin America Working Group

“We need a movement. We need a political swell larger than the civil rights movement – as passionate and as willing to sacrifice. Without it, we’re not going to best the fossil fuel companies and the automakers and the rest of the vested interests that are keeping us from change.’
- Bill McKibben, author and climate activist. YES magazine, Spring 2008