“The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.” AmericaPoliticalForcePowerfulEconomicStreetsDangerousWallShiningProtestMost PowerfulSpotlightSecretiveOccupy Wall Street Author:Bernie Sanders
“Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.” IfsThinkingSelfEnoughGovernmentAblePoliticalHateDiesEvilCausesPartyCreationNegativeCriminalsSocialismCommunismAppealsIndifferenceOur TimeLiberalismProtestGood EnoughFascismPacksPolitical PartiesGangstersSelf-governmentAnything GoesLive And Let LiveSpineless Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.” IfsActionPoliticalFireCarStonesAgreeResistanceThrownProtestDisagreeOffencePolitical Action Author:Ulrike Meinhof
“History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.” WayPoliticalUsedMoralHistoryCollectionsSpiteProtestHistorianOccasionalPrecedent Author:C. V. Wedgwood