Indispensable Chomsky

"Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky" is previously unpublished discussions of sociopolitical analyst Noam Chomsky. The book contains a wide array of themes and critiques, especially of U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky cites the civil rights and the anti-Vietnam War movements as positive events that have made citizens more critical of the mass media.
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Will Durant

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

-- Will Durant, American author.
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Rosa Parks

Buses were desegregated in Montgomery, Alabama on this day in 1956. More than a year earlier, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, prompting her arrest. In response, the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott, which led to the desegregation of the bus system.
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Joe Klein

"Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased."

-- Joe Klein, American author and journalist.
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Jeff Bingaman

"I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns."

-- Jeff Bingaman, United States Senator.
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Andrew Young

"President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed."

-- Andrew Young, United States Congressman.
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Jennifer Granholm

"If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs."

-- Jennifer Granholm, Governor of Michigan.
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