It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
– FDR
Quotes
Just Enough
”Any kind of action that relieves people’s distress a little bit, without changing the system, maintains the system. In fact that’s the way the American system – which is very exploitative and very unfair – that’s the way the American system is being maintained…by giving people a little bit, giving enough people, just enough, to keep them from breaking out in open revolt.”
-Howard Zinn
Hat tip to my Fellow Worker, Adam, for posting this quote on Facebook the other day.
This World In Arms
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sunday Morning Quote
During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands. The naive might call that democracy, but that’s because they don’t understand. The sophisticated understand that that’s the crisis of democracy.
– Noam Chomsky
From a Lecture at the University of Wisconsin on 15 March 1989
Sunday Morning Quote
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sunday Morning Quote
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker
Change Is The Law Of Life
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Remembering JFK on the 48th Anniversary of his Passing
Rest In Peace
A Sort Of Splendid Torch
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
― George Bernard Shaw