“If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
~Malcolm X

“Whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of non-believers…”
~Barack Obama

“The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.”
~Edward Dowling

“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.”
~Adolf Hitler

“Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
~Kurt Vonnegut

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”
~Mark Twain

“The government that governs best is the government that governs least.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the law is of such nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
~Kurt Vonnegut

“The prestige of the government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition Law. Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
~Albert Einstein

“A drug is neither moral or immoral–it’s a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.”
~Frank Zappa

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”
~Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World, page 429

“I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.”
~Ashleigh Brilliant

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, Fate made me an authority myself.”
~Albert Einstein

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
~Thomas Jefferson