Jul 03, 2006 16:19
"An unjust law is no law at all." -Thomas Aquinas
"It is an historical fact that priveleged groups seldom give up their priveleges voluntarily." -Martin Luther King Jr. "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
"We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level-to the level of human rights...They keep you wrapped up in civil rights. And you spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor...Civil-rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket. Civil rights means you're asking Uncle Sam to treat you right. Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth." -Malcolm X "The Ballot or the Bullet"
"One death is a tragedy, 50k is a statistic" -Joseph Stalin
"One death is murder, 100k is foreign policy." -my professor Rich
"This is the land of Chernobyl. Dioxin is like nutmeg." -Steve Colbert, The Daily Show