The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

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Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

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Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

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I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

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The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

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The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

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As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

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I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed."

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Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

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They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!

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