"News is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity."  -  Bill Moyers: - Speech, May 15, 2005 

 

"Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn." - -- John Stockwell -- U.S. Marine Corps Major, and Chief of Station and National Security Council coordinator for the CIA

  

"It is the minorities who have made the history of this world. It is the few who have had the courage to take their places at the front; who have been true enough to themselves to speak the truth that was in them; who have dared oppose the established order of things; who have espoused the cause of the suffering, struggling poor; who have upheld without regard to personal consequences the cause of freedom and righteousness. It is they, the heroic, self-sacrificing few who have made the history of the race and who have paved the way from barbarism to civilization. The many prefer to remain upon the popular side. - Eugene Debs

 

"Wall Street owns the country...Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us...Money rules." -  Mary Elizabeth Lease - Populist orator - 1890 

 

"Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth. " Eugene Debs