“Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.” WarAmericaPoliticalLeaderMoralClassStreetsMiddlePolicyWallGreedCorporateMiddle ClassDestroyingElsewhereBillionaireCorporate Greed Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.” PeopleNeedsRunningPoliticalFightingTeachStreetsRevolutionArmsStructureInternationalRevolutionaryPigsOrganizeUp And DownResistingPolitical PowerReactionaries Author:Fred Hampton
“There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.” PoliticalDifferencesSawsStreetsMovementWallResponseObjectivesSpontaneousOutburstOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:David Harvey
“If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.” IfsWayActionPoliticalDealsStreetsMovementWallUnionsCollaborationPolitical ActionOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:David Harvey
“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.” MenWayHumansPoliticalHateAbilitySituationCareersStreetsCircumstancesSpeechAmbitionIntellectualEnvyConfusedOrganizedDesperateBitternessOrientationBurstingAcclaimTavernsFlotsam Author:Albert Einstein
“You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.” MenWayShouldMindMayHas BeensDifferentYoungPoliticalTurnsPassionSpeakStreetsCrossesMeetingsWarmDebateYoung ManIntimateGentlemanEnjoymentHatsOld ManMilkSenateTranquilityAnother WayObliged Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.” HumansMadeTodayPoliticalHuman BeingsCitiesStreetsHugeWallTasteInstitutionsEntertainmentLondonAdvertisingEnterpriseSubtleFriendlyTyrantsUsersConformBankingPenetrateSinisterSubservientBanking SystemUser Friendly Author:J. G. Ballard
“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.” PeopleMenSaidImportantStatesGovernmentPoliticalThreeStreetsCenturyShapesEnglandPoliceExtraordinaryFrancePrivacyRegulationSpyCoercionSurveillanceManualsLieutenantsChattingInformers Book:The Formation of national States in Western Europe Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe
“The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantMeanStillsUseFeelingsTodayPoliticalReligionPlansStreetsWallShootingBombingSystems Change Author:John Lennon