Splendid Zinn

[marmar]

"The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.
Truth has a power of its own. Art has a power of its own. That age-old lesson – that everything we do matters – is the meaning of the people’s struggle here in the United States and everywhere. A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think, when we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress. We live in a beautiful country. But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to take it back."

-- Howard Zinn, from "A Power Governments Cannot Suppress"

[patrice]

1. "everything we do matters" and the more aware/free you are, the more it can matter, if you choose..

:hi: marmar! :hi:

[LuckyLib]

2. It's the moneyed power that has ruined this country: lobbyists, corporate entities, Wall Street.

"We live in a beautiful country. But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over."

:kick:

[patrice]

4. "the moneyed power" + an ill-informed, un-aware, passive or mis-directed, slave mentality.

[Mira]

3. That's looking at "taking our country back" from a new perspective K&R