H. L. Mencken

"In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."

-- H. L. Mencken, American journalist
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Eric Hoffer

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

-- Eric Hoffer, American author.
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March on Washington

On this day in 1963, about 250,000 people joined the March on Washington. Participants included blacks, whites, actors, and about three hundred Congressional representatives. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, the day culminated with participants listening as Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Fahrenheit 9/11

The 2004 award-winning film "Fahrenheit 9/11" by Michael Moore documents the political and media events that took place in the wake of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Moore takes critical aim squarely at the Bush Administration, which produced the Patriot Act and the Iraqi War, as well as a nation caught-up in confusion, suspicion and fear.
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Howard Zinn

"Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country, for military adventures abroad, and for suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria."

-- Howard Zinn, American activist.
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Ted Kennedy

Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy died of cancer at age 77 on this day in 2009. Kennedy's distinguished political career spanned a broad landscape of policy, including civil rights, health care, education, voting rights and labor. A leading spokesman for liberal issues, Kennedy was remarkable in his efforts to work with allies from across the isle on important pieces of legislation.
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George Orwell

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

-- George Orwell, English author
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Roger Nash Baldwin

"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself… I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."

-- Roger Nash Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union.
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General Douglas MacArthur

"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear."

-- General Douglas MacArthur
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Center for Defense Information

The Center for Defense Information produces research and publications, books, monographs and engaging conferences. CDI is dedicated to strengthening national security through various methods: international cooperation; reduced reliance on unilateral military power; reduced reliance on nuclear weapons; a transformed U.S. military establishment; and prudent oversight of defense programs.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

-- Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader.
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Rosie O'Donnell

"The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't."

-- Rosie O'Donnell, American entertainer.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel

"These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking."

-- Katrina vanden Heuvel, American publisher.
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Jim Hightower

"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do."

-- Jim Hightower, American author and commentator.
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Alex Carey

"The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."

-- Alex Carey, Australian author.
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Susan B. Anthony

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."

-- Susan B. Anthony, American activist.
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Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is a research and public policy institution whose work focuses exclusively on issues of concern to African Americans and other people of color. For over three decades, the Center's research and information programs have influenced public opinion and national policy to benefit not only African Americans, but every American. See jointcenter.org.
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Civil Liberties Act of 1988

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 granted reparations to Japanese-Americans who had been interned by the U.S. government during World War II. It specifically granted each surviving internee about $20,000 in compensation. The legislation stated that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership".
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Voting Rights Act of 1965

On this day in 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Reasserting the 15th Amendment, the Act prohibited the practice of requiring voters to pass literacy tests in order to register to vote, a principal means by which Southern states had prevented African-Americans from voting.
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Sandra Day O'Connor

"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."

-- Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Anna Quindlen

"The problem is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last twenty years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not."

-- Anna Quindlen, American author and commentator.
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Thom Hartmann

Author and entrepreneur Thom Hartmann broadcasts his progressive radio talk show each day to millions of syndicated listeners across America. Hartmann's show, aptly titled Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of our Day, is the #1 progressive talk show on the radio. Listen online at thomhartmann.com/listenlive.php.
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Simone de Beauvoir

"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable." -- Simone de Beauvoir, French author and philosopher.
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Holtzman v. Schlesinger

New York Representative Elizabeth Holtzman and several U.S. Air Force officers filed a 1973 law suit challenging the constitutional basis for U.S. combat in Cambodia, then a neutral country. Appealed to the Supreme Court, Holtzman won a temporary injunction on the bombing. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that military matters are the constitutional domain of the Executive and Legislature.
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Paul Krugman

"Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine." -- Paul Krugman, American economist and commentator.
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Thomas Fuller

"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time." -- Thomas Fuller, English historian.
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The Progressive

Since its founding by Senator Robert La Follette in 1909, The Progressive magazine has opposed corporate power, reckless U.S. interventionism, and has championed peace, women's rights, civil rights, civil liberties, a preserved environment, an independent media, and real democracy. The editors of Progressive have opposed nuclear weapons from August 1945 to the present. See progressive.org.
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