"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr
"Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilization until man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own." - Dr. David Starr Jordan
"We are here to make a better world. No amount of rationalization or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on this planet. The lesson of the '60s is that people who cared enough to do right could change history. We didn't end racism but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you could send half-a-million soldiers around the world to fight a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. We made the environment an issue that couldn't be avoided. The big battles that we won cannot be reversed. We were young, self-righteous, reckless, hypocritical, brave, silly, headstrong and scared half to death.
And we were right." Abbie Hoffman
i think it is time we revive the spirit of the 60's ...
"The sun is settin on the century.
And we are armed to the teeth.
We are all working together now
To make our lives mercifully brief.
Schoolkids keep trying to teach us
What guns are all about.
Confuse liberty with weaponry
And watch your kids act it out.
Every year now like Christmas
Some boy gets the mildfed surburban blues.
Reaches for the avaliable aresenal
And saunters off to make the news.
And women in the middle
Are learning what poor women have always known.
That the edge is closer than you think
When your men bring the guns home.Look at where the profits are
That's how you'll find the source.
Of the big lie that you and i
Both know so well.
In the time it takes this cultural
Death wish to run its course,
They're gonna make a pretty penny
And then they're all going to hell.
He said the chickens all come home to roost.
Yeah, malcom forecasted this flood.
Are we really gonna sleep through another century
While the rich profit off our blood?
True, it may take some doing
To see this undoing done.
But in my humble opinion
Here's what I suggest we do:Open fire on hollywood
Open fire on MTV
Open fire on NBC
And CBS and ABC
Open fire on the NRA
And all the lies they told us
Along the way...
Open fire on each weapons manufacturer
While he's giving head
To some republician senatorAnd if I hear one more time
About fool's rights
To his tools of rage.
I'm gonna take all my friends
And I'm gonna move to canada
And we're gonna die of old age."
-ani difranco
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -henry david thoreau
