Today’s Quote – 2007.04.23

“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” —Martin Luther King

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Today’s Quote – 2007.03.29

“America is run largely by and for about 5,000 people who are actively supported by 50,000 beavers eager to take their places. I arrive at this figure this way: maybe 2,500 megacorporation executives, 500 politicians, lobbyists and Congressional committee chairmen, 500 investment bankers, 500 partners in major accounting firms, 500 labor brokers. If you don’t like my figures, make up your own…” –Robert Townsend (former CEO of Avis)

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Today’s Quote – 2007.03.24

“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” –Paulo Freire

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Today’s Quote – 2007.02.16

“Traditional rulers, institutions, and ways of life have crumbled under the fatal impact of American wealth and power but they have not been replaced by new institutions and new ways of life, nor has their breakdown ushered in an era of democracy and development.”

—J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power

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