“Protesting is a form of direct democracy, but in America national policy is made of representative democracy.”
Source: The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
“Representation is Degradation (The Sonnet)
Nationalism is but a precursor to fascism,
Representation is but a precursor to corruption.
Delegation is but a precursor to destitution,
Law-abidance is but a precursor to degradation.
Representation without accountability is just,
As undemocratic as taxation without representation.
Trading in one party for another is not change,
But merely the re-initiation of prehistoric division.
Democracy that shows no sign of nonpartisanism,
Is but a petri dish of prejudice most blinding.
Such a democracy stuck on representation,
Is but a silent dictatorship in the making.
Neither law nor party loyalty will elevate the society.
All my hope, therefore, lies upon civilian responsibility.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Representation is but silent regress.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Representation without accountability is just as undemocratic as taxation without representation.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Representation is code for civic hibernation.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Dictatorships empower leaders, democracy empowers citizens.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“And yet the bawling voice, the black gown, the tramp of feet on the stone, the mace and the dingy felt hats somehow suggest, better than scarlet and trumpets, that the Commons are taking their seats in their own House to proceed with the business of governing their own country. Vague though our history may be, we somehow feel that we common people won this right centuries ago, and have held it for centuries past, and the mace is our mace and the Speaker is our speaker and we have no need of trumpeters and gold and scarlet to usher our representative into our own House of Commons.”
Source: The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life
“People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, computers, tape recorders, and generally by the time they have reached this decision, they have had a simple education.”
Source: Aiding and Abetting
“This acute, “a selfdissolving contradiction,” Marx had very precisely seen and foreseen that “it establishes a monopoly in certain spheres and thereby requires state interference.” This contradiction “reproduces a new financial aristocracy” (how much Marx was right!), no matter it will call itself Communist Party of Soviet Union or DuPont Financial Circle. It reproduces “a new variety of parasites . . . , a whole system of swindling and cheating by means of corporation promotion, stock issuance, and stock speculation.”
Source: Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
“In any negotiation, the one who first gives a number is the loser.”
Source: Beyond All Recognition