a few lines can convey so much meaning....... "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.... There is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." -- William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice from 1939-1975 " Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice . . . when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. " -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison, American president from 1809-1817, helped draft the Constitution " The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it." -- Henry Adams, American historian, 1838-1918 " The economy is doing fine, but the people aren't." -- General Emelio Medici, head-of-state of Brazil's U.S.-supported military dictatorship, 1971 "True, the white man brought great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is progress?" -- Chief Luther Standing Bear, 1933 " Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. " -- Martin Luther King, Jr. " Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." -- Mark Twain " Corporations have taken over the government and turned it against its own people." -- Ralph Nader, The Progressive magazine, April 2000, p39 peace, jandt
