Occupation: Activist Birth: February 27, 1934
The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guara….
That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendou….
If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollut….
I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have li….
Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-c….
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on t….
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as electio….
Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations..
We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war a….
If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil..
Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society..
The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings..
Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated..
In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy….
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government su….
Families are incubators for citizen activists..
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental dr….
If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you..
When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action i….
Secrecy destroys accountability..
In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only fi….