Isidoro Ocampo... Be a Pioneer (1937, woodcut). "...You be the first in the struggle. Has one man fallen? Have two? It does not matter! Soon others will rise up to replace them. You should be the first to raise your protest against injustice; the first in forming the union at your factory; the first in going on strike." From Libro de Lectura para el uso de Escuelas Nocturnas Para Trabajadores - Book of Readings for use in the Workers' Night Schools, México 1937.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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