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There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part...And you've got to indicate to the people who run it...unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

dont worry bout me, im around.

About Picture: huggin PIF participant while weirding out another, transcending boundaries of my job but check out our awesome program taking kids from boys and girls clubs using photography to learn about and explore nature and mad science:
http://pif.udall.gov/

-check out drawings done by Palestinian cartoonist and martyr Naji Al Ali whose unrelenting cartoons exposed the brutality of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinians and the corruption and hypocrisy of Arab world regimes.
http://www.najialali.com/articles.html

"I like to talk a lot when I am excited about something I see."-Helen Keller

i'm awkward because i have the tendency to touch people. muahhhhhh

"I worked my ass off for that kid."-Uncle Phil
"And yet it still comes back with such vengeance."-G

stolen from jon marino b/c it's true: Text boxes can't summarize people. Give me a call and we'll grab a cup of TEA, you can drink coffee Jon, I take TEA. hope you enjoy me as i talk so tell me to listen and ask how are us both.
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...the oppressors attempt to destroy in the oppressed, their quality as 'considerers' of the world...they must mythicize the world...precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given- something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

It is necessary for the oppressors to approach the people in order, via subjugation, to keep them passive. This approximation, however, does not involve being with the people, or require true communication. It is accomplished by the oppressors' depositing myths indispensable to the status quo: for example, the myth that the oppressive order is a 'free society'; the myth that all persons are free to work where they wish, that if they don't like their boss they can leave him and look for another job; the myth that this order respects human rights and is therefore worthy of esteem; the myth that anyone who is industrious can become an entrepreneur- worse yet, the myth that the street vendor is as much an entrepreneur as the owner of a large factory; the myth of the universal right of education, when of all the Brazilian children who enter primary schools, only a tiny fraction will ever reach the university; the myth of the equality of all individuals, when the question: 'Do you know who you're talking to?' is still current among us;...the myth of the charity and generosity of the elites, when what they really do as a class is to foster selective 'good deeds'...the myth that the dominant elites, 'recognizing their duties,' promote the advancement of the people, so that the people, in a gesture of gratitude, should accept the words of the elites and be conformed to them; the myth that rebellion is a sin against God; the myth of private property as fundamental to personal human development (so long as oppressors are the only true human beings); the myth of the industriousness of the oppressors and the laziness and dishonesty of the oppressed, as well as the myth of the natural inferiority of the latter and the superiority of the former.

All these myths...are presented by well-organized propaganda and slogans, via the mass 'communications' media- as if such alienation constituted real communication!

Paulo Freire
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"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."-Barbara Johnson found at Mather Old Folks Home i.e. Pavilion and it challenges me...
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Bunch of these taken from Troy Pasulka but need to be shared like:
Labels are good; programs are better
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It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
-Leonardo da Vinci
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Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.
-Daniel Burnham
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Class canceled--revolution.
-Einstein
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I am said to be a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolt.
-Mark Twain
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If your brother weak then you must help him if you're strong > Love him for the right and do not judge him for the wrong > If your sister lost then you must help her find her way > She might just be the one to have to help you out some day > United we stand up or divided we will fall...
-Damian Marley
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Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
-Frederick Douglass
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Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
-William Sloane Coffin
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I am my own foundation.
-Frantz Fanon
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-Upton Sinclair
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The rift between dreams and reality causes no harm if only the person dreaming believes seriously in his dream, if he attentively observes life, compares his observations with his castles in the air, and if, generally speaking, he works conscientiously for the achievement of his fantasies. If there is some connection between dreams and life then all is well.
-Lenin
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We do not ask how a multicultural or plural nation (or world) is sutured at the end of some horizon of liberal, institutionally embedded, communication. We ask instead how the incommensurateness of liberal ideology and practice is made to appear commensurate. -Elizabeth Povinelli
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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”-Rabindranath Tagore at Inspiration Cafe in Uptown, Chicago
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Preach often, use words if you must.
-African Proverb

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.” -César Chávez

"The genius of our system is that ordinary people go out and vote against their interests. The way our ruling class keeps out of sight is one of the greatest stunts in the political history of any country." -Gore Vidal

"capitalism is a pyramid scheme. are we ready to start talking about how the system IS the problem" - via Occupy San Diego