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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
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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?
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!
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.
Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember
The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent
The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...
Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.
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."
