“The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the two as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should mean, change for the better - …

“I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.” ― Wallace Shawn

“How we live our lives does not, unfortunately, depend on us alone. Circumstances, good or bad, constantly intervene. A person close to us die. A person not so close to us carries on living. All these things affect how we live.” ― Tariq Ali, The Stone Woman

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth. Truth has a power of its own. Art has a power of its own. That age-old lesson – that everything …

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life. ― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives. ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography