Americas

"We must find ways to advance the truth that humanity is more than cells and energy. We must advance the idea that people, regardless of our social and economic status, health, race, or gender, have a right to life, and that our lives, and also the lives of our born, and unborn children, are precious, and sacred, and that our quest for survival is the only cause for governments, and taxes."

"Iraqis are treated the way the U.S. Army treated some American Indians in the Old West, with no concern for safety of innocents. One American officer said in those days, "Nits make lice", and turned the automatic rifles and artillery on a native village with no compassion and no remorse."

"When man thinks he can manipulate nature and the weather, nature and weather will manipulate man. There has never been an instance where man can beat nature, yet for his stupidity and rigidity he continues to try."

"America's future is becoming clearer and clearer. We are being overtaken by hungrier, better-educated, more competent, and harder working people from India to Malaysia to China to Brazil. If America did not have so many hard-working immigrants to carry the load at low wages, we would be in even worse shape."

"It’s not as though the Bush administration couldn’t have done more. They could have sent the relief earlier as they did for Jeb Bush in Florida before the 2004 election. They could have listened to the cries and call, but they chose not to."

"...it is not too late, let's send those proud agency heads down to those facilities post-evacuation and let them spend a couple of nights in the evacuated facilities with nothing to eat or drink and forced to stay in squalor, and maybe the response moving forward will improve."

"Sharon never took the trouble to explain his motives for undertaking the Disengagement. One could only guess. The military preparations were meticulous, the public relations preparations were nil. In spite of this, the general public did support the plan, either out of loyalty to the democratic order or out of hope for peace, or both. But even this did not generate a big, rousing public movement in support of the Disengagement."

"For silencing the truth tellers, the US and its allies are willing to put democracy, human rights and civil liberties on hold and put relations with their own masses at risk to remain completely unrestrained domestically, to use any amount of force in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world, and to rig elections or discredit opponents."