"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln

“I have been saying for the last thousand years the United States has only one [political] party – the property party. It's the party of big corporations, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.” ~ Gore Vidal

"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.": Mark Twain

"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that The State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." : Arthur Miller playwright