"That information, those 6,000 pages, should be released to the public. It's our right as U.S. citizens to know what our government has done in our name just as I think that these memos about the U.S. of drones should be released to the public."

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Source : Source: progressive.org

Medea Benjamin

#Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes #Government Quotes

“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
“We have much to hope from the flowers.”
“What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"”

Source : "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.
“The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of thought.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.”
“I just like doing things from my own head.”
“Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then, you really didn't feel like you were living in the United States of America, in a first world country. You had a sense that life was a precious commodity you had to fight to keep.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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