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Here are a few quotes from my books,
"Don't you think that it's just a little bit of a disgrace to discover that we might have an extra $1.6 trillion with which to solve real human problems and yet can't think of anything useful to do with the opportunity.... Our national treasury does not belong to those who paid the tax; it belongs to our posterity... The Bush plan is the greatest rip off that has ever been postulated. It probably represents the largest single publicly sponsored transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich that was ever purposely devised." (written 2/22/2001)
"The
faulty logic that's usually promoted is this: That in America, anyone
can rise above his or her station in life and make it — a true
statement. The implication is, that in America everyone can rise above
their station and make it — not a true statement." "GOD IS. BUT GOD IS NOT A RELIGION."
"When a plaintiff comes into a United States court, he is expected to come to the court with “clean hands” or the court will not grant relief. To have “clean hands” means that the party bringing the action is not engaged in immoral or illegal acts. The United States does not have “clean hands.” Can you guess why the Bush team does not want to prosecute terrorists in a public court of law?"
"I learned this year that the children of Iraq have the highest cancer rate in the world. Why? Because our bombs were made of depleted uranium."
"To limit dissent and the free flow of information under the guise of National Security is simply a flagrant deception and a scurrilous attack on our freedoms and on our posterity. Covering up crimes and atrocities committed by a president or a shadow government (that is either under his control, or controls him), that operates in our name, but outside the framework of the Constitution and without any substantive checks and balances — is not in the National Interest… it never was and never will be."
"Do you think it's possible that if you were to wake up one morning and come to the realization that your freedom is hanging by a thread, that you wouldn't do anything more than get dressed and go to work, as if it were the same as any other day? Is it possible that our freedom and our country could be lost inch by inch without one defining moment to mark the transformation from freedom to oppression, and is it possible that we could miss hearing the call when it comes, or if we do hear it, simply be too tired or not have the time, the strength, the energy, the know-how, or the courage to stand up for justice anyway?"
"...and if you haven't the courage to tell the truth, or the consciousness to honor the truth, or the love to love the truth, then one day you will not have the truth to tell, and soon thereafter you will not live in a place that will acknowledge the truth when it is told, and not long after that the truth will not be told, for it will no longer be allowed. You cannot hope to be a traitor to life, and then expect to live in a free and just society."
"The relationship the government of the United States has to the people of the Middle East is essentially the same relationship that the government of United States had to Native Americans in the early part of our history. Which is to say, we want what they have."
"We declared war without understanding why we were attacked or what the consequence of our response might be on innocent bystanders. We quickly passed legislation that desecrated our Constitution and made a mockery of our values and system of government. Elected representatives willingly gave away some of our most sacred rights and freedoms without even reading the legislation they voted for."
"Learn to just be quiet and listen for a while to your own inner voice. Be quiet. Listen. Don't do anything. Just listen. Wait... just this once."
"And so God continues to help us make lemonade out of our lemons, albeit not without having to witness a good deal of human suffering along the way. And God continues to teach us wisdom through experience, each at our own pace and in our own time. This too, not without a good deal of suffering."
"This war with terrorism was totally unnecessary. The terrorism we are now fighting is nothing more than “blowback.” [Which is to say], the result of America behaving dishonorably and/or foolishly on the world stage (as we did in Iraq, for example, when the sanctions we sponsored resulted in the deaths of over 500,000 Iraqi children.) We have, in the past, selfishly and illegally sold out budding democracies, and/or betrayed the people of other lands, to benefit our own powerful corporate or national interests. We also pursued other shortsighted objectives, often at the expense of other people and sometimes even at the expense of our own."
"The fact that no attempt to take such a body count was allowed, is probably a crime in and of itself, but I am not going to rest my arguments on that. Let me suggest that it would behoove you to understand what crimes have been committed so you can understand how perverse this entire war is."
"When an elected official takes his oath of office, he gives his word that he will preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Any individual who makes a personal decision to take office and then not abide by the guiding principles established under the Constitution and the body of law that follows from it, and favors instead his own interpretation of some other law, i.e., religious law, he violates both his oath of office and the law he tells himself he's following."
"Mission Accomplished is the one thing George W. Bush said during his presidency that was true. Because the real mission was to secure Iraqi oil for the West and that has been done."
"Were they less innocent than the 3,000 who went to work that day in September 2001 thinking it was just another day?"
"But to love other people does not mean that you have to feel any particular way all the time. To love other people has more to do with your commitment to the things you say you believe in."
"You cannot deny justice to some and then expect that justice will be preserved for you."
"This administration and other administrations over time have denigrated the United Nations and undermined its work. I believe one reason they have done so is because the corporate elite of this country are afraid of the power that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights represents—the power of The People."
"If you want to live your life in the image of God, then do not tell a woman that she must give birth to a child and then when that child is born, turn your back on both the mother and the child and think you have done your duty. God is not like that."
"I
say, Bush's tax proposal will further undermine the very spirit of
responsible stewardship which we so desperately need to protect the
fabric of our society.
Didn't anyone ever tell you, "You can't judge a book by it's cover?"
"Having said that, I think it’s time we seriously turn our attention to what needs to come next: Impeaching Bush and his administration."
"Any United States citizen, who, by his special circumstance of knowledge and position, can benefit his country, (by speaking out or by taking other appropriate measures which are in his general purview or influence, in order to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States), has a duty and an obligation to do so, lest there be citizens who are damaged by his neglect, cowardice, or willful wrong doing."
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