Finally had a day off today, and driving around the city, I found myself thinking once again about the current state of affairs. However, today for some reason, I am reminded that sometimes, other people can put it best when you have trouble finding the words. Here are a couple of quotes I wanted to share that I thought were pretty cool.
"There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
-Mario Savio, 1964
"Those of us who call for the repudiation of massive violence to solve human problems must sound utopian, romantic. So did those who demanded the end of slavery. But utopian ideas become realistic at certain points in history, when the moral power of an idea mobilizes large numbers of people in its' support. This may then be joined to the realization, by at least some of those in authority, that it would be realistic for them to change their policy, even perhaps share power with those they have long controlled."
-Howard Zinn
This one was used at the end of American History X, and I have always liked it:
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, will yet swell, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature"
-President Lincoln
See ya around.
By the way, what cd has been in your cd player the most lately? Lamb of God- "Ashes of the Wake" for me.
"There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
-Mario Savio, 1964
"Those of us who call for the repudiation of massive violence to solve human problems must sound utopian, romantic. So did those who demanded the end of slavery. But utopian ideas become realistic at certain points in history, when the moral power of an idea mobilizes large numbers of people in its' support. This may then be joined to the realization, by at least some of those in authority, that it would be realistic for them to change their policy, even perhaps share power with those they have long controlled."
-Howard Zinn
This one was used at the end of American History X, and I have always liked it:
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, will yet swell, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature"
-President Lincoln
See ya around.
By the way, what cd has been in your cd player the most lately? Lamb of God- "Ashes of the Wake" for me.