Ellen Willis

"On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with."

-- Ellen Willis, American journalist.
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The United Nations

The United Nations was founded in 1945 by 51 countries. Besides peacekeeping, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance, the UN works on a broad range of issues, from sustainable development, refugees protection, disaster relief, counter terrorism, disarmament, to promoting democracy, human rights, and economic and social development. The UN's latest annual budget was over $4 billion.
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Oprah Winfrey

"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."

-- Oprah Winfrey, American entertainer.
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Economic recessions

Fiscal measures first adopted by the federal government during the Great Depression have reduced the length and severity of recessions through the 20th century. Before the federal government began taking an active role during economic downturns, recessions routinely produced widespread joblessness, large populations of homeless people, human suffering from hunger and disease, and general despair.
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Al Gore

"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."

-- Al Gore, Vice President of the United States.
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Cultural Liberalism

Cultural Liberalism is one of many types of liberal thought. Grounded in the principles of liberal ideology, cultural liberalism is based the importance of personal freedom of choice along with very limited government intrusion. High profile examples are censorship, gambling, abortion and drugs. The Netherlands is the most often cited example of cultural liberalism.
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Enron crash

The Enron Company crash in the aftermath of the bull market of the late 1990s spawned the 2004 documentary film "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room." The award-winning feature tells the history and lead up of the spectacular Enron collapse, which resulted in criminal trials for several of the company's top executives as well as the onset of the California electricity crisis.
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George Carlin

"I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work."

-- George Carlin, American entertainer.
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Barbra Streisand

"How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination."

-- Barbra Streisand, American entertainer.
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Cimate change

The Earth is showing many signs of climate change: Average temperatures have climbed 0.8 degree Celsius around the world since 1880; the 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years; Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Courtesy of The National Geographic Website.
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Robert Kennedy

"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired."

-- Robert Kennedy, United States Senator.
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Singapore's Healthcare system

Singapore has one of the most successful healthcare systems in the world, in terms of efficiency and results, according to a recent Watson Wyatt study. The key to Singapore’s system: the emphasis on the individual to assume responsibility towards their own health and their own health expenditure. The system is funded by a combination of government subsidies and individual contributions.
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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides perspectives from independent and international journalists, grassroots leaders, peace activists, academics, independent analysts, and ordinary people from around the world directly affected by U.S. foreign policy. Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations. See democracynow.org.
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European liberals

A "liberal" in the U.S. is the political equal to a "conservative" in Europe. In Europe, being considered liberal is roughly comparable to the economic outlook of American economic conservatives. In the U.S., being liberal is usually associated with a sense of social liberalism, which supports regulation of business and other economic interventionism which they believe to be in the public interest
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Robert Frost

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."

-- Robert Frost, American poet.
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Jimmy Carter

Former president Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Carter served as the nation's 39th president from 1977 to 1981. The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Carter's decades of "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
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Leonard Pitts Jr.

"Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it."

-- Leonard Pitts Jr., American author and commentator.
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Pell Grants

The Federal Pell Grant Program provides need-based grants to income-qualified undergraduate and certain post baccalaureate students to promote access to post-secondary education. The program, which as become a staple of college student aid, was launched in 1973 and is named for Claiborne Pell, a longtime Democratic senator from Rhode Island.
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Robert Jensen

“On Sept. 10 there was pain and suffering of a world manifested by power. There is nothing special about Sept. 11; there is nothing special about our pain in this country. It mattered no more or no less than the pain and suffering of the rest of the world that day. We cannot contribute to the lives lost by innocent civilians because of a corruption of power.”

-- Robert Jensen, American journalist.
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Alexis de Tocqueville

"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian
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Harold Meyerson

"The only unequivocally good policy option before the American people is to dump the president who got us into this mess, who had no trouble sending our young people to Iraq but who cannot steel himself to face the Sept. 11 commission alone."

-- Harold Meyerson, American author and journalist.
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John Kenneth Galbraith

"The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses."

-- John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist.
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Eugene Debs

Eugene Debs was an American labor leader and founding member of the International Labor Union. Through his life, Debs was maligned, rebuffed, denounced and jailed for promoting world peace abroad and a living wage at home. The five-time U.S. Presidential candidate is celebrated for his belief in socialism without large state involvement. Debs died in 1926 at the age of 70.
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Molly Ivins

"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."

-- Molly Ivins, American author and commentator.
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Labor Day

Labor union leader Peter J. McGuire initiated the first Labor Day celebration on this day in 1882 in New York City. The first governmental recognition of Labor Day came through municipal ordinances passed in 1885. By 1894, twenty-eight states had recognized Labor Day as a holiday. President Grover Cleveland signed a bill making Labor Day an official national holiday in 1894.
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Robin Morgan

"I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."

-- Robin Morgan, American author and social activist.
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JFK

"A time for greatness" - 1960 U.S. presidential campaign theme of John F. Kennedy.
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Adlai E. Stevenson

"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

-- Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States.
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Thurgood Marshall

"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps." -- Thurgood Marshall, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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