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The Quotable Rebel: Political Quotations

The Quotable Rebel: Political Quotations for Dangerous Times

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Welcome to the Myspace home of The Quotable Rebel: Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (Common Courage Press, 2005), a book of selected quotations from rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries throughout history. With thousands of quotes on 125 topics, the book features the voices of 900 well known and lessor known speakers from history. From Crazy Horse to Audre Lorde, Dead Prez to Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy to Emma Goldman, Emiliano Zapata to Edward Said, and Bob Marley to Bell Hooks, The Quotable Rebel offers bits of wisdom on the biggest issues of our time: war, imperialism, the environment, youth, terrorism, activism, lgbt, colonialism, peace, women, race, the media, love, art, religion, poverty, slavery, education, popular culture, politics, prisons, and much more. A second, expanded edition is planned by the publisher for 2007. www.commoncouragepress.com
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Available at Borders and Barnes and Noble chain stores, indepdendent bookstores in the U.S. and Canada, and all major online sellers: Amazon.com, Borders online, Barnes and Noble online, Powells.com and AKpress online. The organization Teaching for Change sells it online as one of their Top Ten "Tools For Activists" books; the famed City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco has featured it as a selection in their online "Situations and Actions" section; and the Resource Center of the Americas sells it in their online bookstore. All royalties donated to social justice charity.

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A short partial list of the quoted includes: Sitting Bull, Winnie Mandela, Arundhati Roy, Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Ho Chi Minh, Sojourner Truth, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Emma Goldman, Dead Prez, William Blum, Jomo Kenyatta, Allen Ginsberg, Rita Mae Brown, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Alice Walker, Tariq Ali, Albert Memmi, Barbara Smith, Crazy Horse, Ramsey Clark, Simon Boli var, Angelina Grimke Weld, Eduardo Galeano, Edward Said, Sunera Thobani, Aime Cesaire, Zapatista National Liberation Army, Mark Twain, Marcus Garvey, Vandana Shiva, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, Tecumseh, Toussaint L'Ouverture, June Jordan, Eugene Debs, Huey Newton, Bell Hooks, Hannah Arendt, James Connolly, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ward Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Bobby Sands, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Leonard Peltier, Stan Goff, Assata Shakur, Maya Angelou, Kuwasi Balagoon, Toni Cade Bambara, Martin Luther King, Jr, H. "Rap" Brown, Russell Means, James Baldwin, David Walker, Immortal Technique Maria W. Stewart, John Trudell, Augusto Cesar Sandino, Rita "Bo" Brown, Susan B. Anthony, Tomás Borge Martínez, Thomas Paine, Sergio Méndez Arceo, Utah Phillips, José María Morelos, Grace Lee Boggs, Oscar Romero, Ralph Chaplin, William Jelani Cobb, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Rosa Parks, Chief Atai, Miguel Hidalgo, Norman Solomon, Muhammad Ali, W.E.B. Du Bois, William Upski Wimsatt, Dick Gregory, Steve Biko, Sonia Sanchez, Frederick Douglass, Eldridge Cleaver, Paul Robeson, Vine Deloria, Chief Seattle, Harriet Tubman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bob Marley, Chief Joseph, Wole Soyinka, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Cherrà e Moraga, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Will Rogers, James W. Loewen, Luther Standing Bear, Ohiyesa, Winona LaDuke, Albert Einstein, Audre Lorde, Denis Hayes, Earth Liberation Front, Wangari Maathai, Friedrich Engels, Judi Bari, Robert Bullard, Manfred Max-Neef, Edward Abbey, Toni Morrison, Mary Daly, Julia Butterfly Hill, David Suzuki, Louise Michel, Peter Singer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Carl Oglesby, Bernadette Devlin, Subcomandante Marcos, Mother Jones, Welfare Poets, George Jackson, Etienne de la Boetie, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, Albert Camus, Howard Zinn, The Coup, Karl Marx, Patrice Lumumba, Joan Baez, Mao Tse-Tung, Daniel O'Connell, Daniel Berrigan, Emma Goldman, Adrienne Rich, A. Philip Randolph, Mordechai Vanunu, Public Enemy, Mario Savio, Mario Hardy Ramirez, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Cornel West, John Brown, Fred Hampton, Michael Franti, Franz Fanon, David Gilbert, Rod Coronado, Fidel Castro, Michael Albert, Ramona Africa, Ida B. Wells, Martin Niemoller, Paul Laraque, Cynthia McKinney, Pete Seeger, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ewuare Osayande, Guillermo Gomez-Peta, Jose Marti, Robin Morgan, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Amiri Baraka, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pedro Albizu Campos, Starhawk, Guy Fawkes, Wendell Phillips, Chinua Achebe, Yuri Kochiyama, John Africa, Helen Keller, Mikhail Bakunin, Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, Noam Chomsky, Fela Kuti, Gloria Steinem, Heinrich Heine, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Michael Berg, Marilyn Buck, Black Hawk, Salvador Allende, George Santayana, Patrice Lumumba, Aurora Levins Morales, Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis, Michael Parenti, Geronimo, Jello Biafra, Greg Palast, Langston Hughes, Chuck D, Pablo Picasso, Joe Hill, Martin Espada, Cherrie Moraga, Woody Guthrie, Thom Yorke, Mutulu Shakur, Nikki Giovanni, Jeff Chang, Gary Delgado, Susan Sontag, Peter Tosh, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sarah Grimko, Shirley Chisholm, Bernardine Dohrn, Susan Faludi, Virginia Woolf, Mariam Makeba, Paula Giddings, Rebecca Walker, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Aung San Suu Kyi, Camille Paglia, Simone de Beauvoir, Alicia Banks, Sylvia Ray Rivera, Gloria Anzaldia, Robin Tyler, Alexander Berkman, Mother Jones, Studs Terkel, Jesse Jackson, August Spies, Barbara Ehrenrei, ch Shirin Ebadi, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Kathy Kelly, John Stockwell, Desmond Tutu, David P. Richardson, Eric Alterman, Magdaleno Rose-Avila, Gary Null, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, John Edgar Wideman, Michel Foucault, Last Poets, Lenny Bruce, Shaka Sankofa, Kevin Cooper, Suheir Hammad, "Zamba" Boukman Dutty, Fannie Lou Hamer, Simone Weil, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ernesto Cardenal, Medgar Evers, Chico Mendes, Chris Hedges, Randolph Bourne, Elias Rashmawi, Woody Harrelson, Smedley Butler, Tim Wise, Camilo Mejia

Music:

From Amazon.com:"The book is nearly four hundred pages of wisdom, philosophy, humor and hope from politically left radicals and rebels. Latner has obviously done extensive reading and research; his sources are global, throughout history, and ideologically diverse" --Mattie Weiss, co-author, "How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office."

Movies:

Mumia Abu-Jamal says:"[The Quotable Rebel] features a wide range of folks, from various movements, speaking on issues which engaged their passions, and moved their souls...I'd like to send this to my family, but I can't let it go!"

Television:

From Amazon.com:"I am a quotation junkie. I have over 600 quotation books of all sizes and ages. I'm also publisher of a progressive media site OpEdNews dot com and a quotations website, quotationscentral dot com. So when I say that this quotation book is a real treasure, it's with some authority. There are plenty of quotations books-- maybe hundreds, that cover the broad swathe of being human. There are a few for liberals and progressives. This is probably the best I've seen for people on the political left." --Robert Kall, Opednews.com

Books:

From Amazon.com: "The Quotable Rebel was created to fill a gap and be of use. It does more. It galvanizes those of us committed to social transformation to enter the breach, once again. It testifies to our common courage over the ‘long haul.’ It makes the Movement "irresistible." --Michelle Gibbs, excerpted from her review, "A Meeting of Minds," in Toward Freedom, January 17, 2006. Gibbs is a writer, poet, artist and teacher based in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is the author of Riffin' to a Maroon Tune, Line of Sight, and Island Images.

Heroes:

Mario Hardy Ramirez says:This book is an absolutely essential companion for anyone currently involved in a personal mission of self-social exploration and-or activism. One thing that the activist has needed throughout time is a way to recharge our collective batteries, summon a wisdom outside of ourselves, and draw on the brilliance-energy of our comrades. This collection accomplishes all of the above!"

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A Few Sample Quotations (more coming soon)

A few sample quotations, from the book's publisher page at www.commoncouragepresss.com:In this indispensable reference come the timeless quotes from Malcolm X to Arundhati Roy, from Edward Said to bel...
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About the Background of This Page

The background of this Myspace page shows a scene from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. From Wikipedia:"The Black Power Salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico is a noted civil rights protest.Tommie ...
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