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I also have another blog that I co-founded with Carlo Montemayor that we started on Dec. 26, 2006. It's called " Double Consciousness " and it's dedicated to "the study and refutation of white supremacy and white privilege in American society and the study of contemporary racist thought and how it effects people of color and whites ."
Also, check out the blog aggregator I help do. It's called " The Blog and the Bullet "
"If Jesus were alive today, he would be a guerrillero."
-Father Camilo Torres
"If one sacrifices from what has been wrongfully obtained, the offering is blemished; the gifts of the lawless are not acceptable. The Most High is not pleased with the offerings of the ungodly; and he is not propitiated for sins by a multitude of sacrifices. Like one who kills a son before his father's eyes is the man who offers a sacrifice from the property of the poor. The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a man of blood. To take away a neighbor's living is to murder him; to deprive an employee of his wages is to shed blood."
-Sirach 34:18-22, the Apocrapha(Greek Old Testament)
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, wheter the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
-Mahatma Gandhi
"The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance."
-Aung San Suu Kyi
"America is just as much as colonial power as England ever was. America is just as much as colonial power as France ever was. In fact, America is more so a colonial power then they because she's a hypocritical colonial power...What do you call second class citizenship? Why that's colonization. Second class citizenship is nothing but 20th century slavery...Well this country is a hypocrite. They try and make you think they set you free by calling you a second class citizen. No, you're nothing but a 20th century slave."
-Malcolm X
"Has the wealthy minority- who hold in their hands the economy, the power of decision, the control of the press and all the media- been transfigured? There are many baptized in our country who have not completely ingested the demands of the gospel: a total transfigurationThe Christian revolution is based on a love which excludes no single human being. Jesus, after all, enfleshed himself as one of our peasants to share their miseries. Can we call ourselves his followers and not do the same?"
-Father Rutilio Grande
"A mass of promises,
Begin to rupture,
Like the pockets Of the new world kings,
Like swollen stomachs,
In Appalachia,
Like the priests that fucked you,
As he whispered holy things,
A mass of tears have transformed to stones now,
Sharpened on suffering,
And woven into slings,
Hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress, Taking today what tomorrow never brings"
-Ashes in the Fall
by Rage Against the Machine
"Every time the World Bank lends, its lending for destruction, its lending for transfer of the assets of the poor...The conditionalities of the World Bank are basically conditionalities that make the poor poorer and the constant hype that the World Bank serves the poor is not true...Ive spent the last two decades of my life supporting local movements...it is because of the devastation the World Bank is causing."
-Vandana Shiva
"There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affiars and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically."
-Bobby Sands
"A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world."
-Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that your are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Bishop Desmond Tutu
"Nothing is so important to the church as human life, as the human person, above all, the person of the poor and the oppressed, who, beside being human beings, are also divine beings, since Jesus said that whatever is done to them He takes as done to Him. That bloodshed, those deaths, are beyond politics. They touch the very heart of God."
-Archbishop Oscar Romero
"A wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down."
-Assata Shakur
"If men thought of God as much as they think of the world, who would not attain liberation?" -From the Maitri Upanishad...