"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
"Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group."
"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
"Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free."
"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." {I think this quote is great because it essentially negates our Capitalist society, in that the Native Americans were here first... -Professional Revolutionist #3}
"Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women."
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
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