“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”
“The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...”
“The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.”
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
“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,”
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
“We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.”
“Knowledge—that is, education in its true sense—is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders.”
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country”
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson”
“Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society”
“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.”
“The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.”
“Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales”
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hatred for me - and I welcome their hatred. I should like to have it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it these forces met their master."
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at Madison Square Garden
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
what if this whole crusade's a charade
and behind it all there's a price to be paid
for the blood on which we dine
justified in the name of the holy and the divine
just how deep do you believe.....
can you get up off your knees? are you brave enough to see? do you want to change it?
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“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”
“The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...”
“The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.”
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
“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,”
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
“We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.”
“Knowledge—that is, education in its true sense—is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders.”
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country”
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson”
“Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society”
“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.”
“The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.”
“Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales”
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hatred for me - and I welcome their hatred. I should like to have it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it these forces met their master."
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at Madison Square Garden
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
you would have been freed from the reason for the rifle and you would have changed your mind: this is not the way to find one’s identity again.
-Mahmoud Darwish
and behind it all there's a price to be paid
for the blood on which we dine
justified in the name of the holy and the divine
just how deep do you believe.....
can you get up off your knees? are you brave enough to see? do you want to change it?