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 | "I
am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We
have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall
continue to do so."
-- Tewolde
Egziabher |
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One
has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture
of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement
of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if
they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.
-- Albert Einstein
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"In
the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The
potential for the disastrous rise of displaced power exists and will persist."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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To the fervent proponents
of ruthless corporate capitalism I say: make a millionaire CEO live as a poor
sweatshop worker in Indonesia for one month and then ask him about the merits
of the world economic system...
-- Vassilis Epaminondou
Capitalist
exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries.
On the other hand ... a regime which is completely oriented towards the people
as a whole and based on the principle that man is the most precious of all possessions,
will allow us to go forward more quickly and more harmoniously, and thus make
impossible that caricature of society where all economic and political power is
held in the hands of a few who regard the nation as a whole with scorn and contempt.
-- Frantz Fanon
Do
you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for
dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth."
-- Henry Ford
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do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like
to know. In our countries, numbers live better than people. How many people prosper
in times of prosperity? How many people find their lives developed by development?
-- Eduardo Galeano
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Globalization
has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion
of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers
of capital. We must not confuse globalization with “internationalism” though.
We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions,
fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the “rubbing out” of
national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the
free movement of peoples, the other of money.
-- Eduardo
Galeano
Nothing
can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what
is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes
its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the
positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses
to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there’s a clear trend
these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater
concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.
-- Eduardo
Galeano
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"Globalization was supposed
to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But
what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet
not having safe water to drink?"
-- Mikhail
Gorbachev |
We should know that
only replacing the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable
cooperation will guarantee a globalization that takes advantage of potential efficiency
gains in ways that also promote environmental protection, international equity,
economic democracy, and variety.
-- Robin Hahnel
Recognizing
that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward
leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of the wealth,
power, and productive energies from communities and the environment is the right
approach... And knowing that in every specific battle, what we are fighting for
is merely the substitution of the human agenda for the corporate agenda is what
can guide and sustain us.
-- Robin Hahnel
So
long as private corporations remain the dominant production institution of society,
no matter who is in power, the long-run trend in society will be to promote the
corporate interest.
-- Michael Harrington
It
is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government
of corporations by corporations for corporations
-- Rutherford B. Hayes
Economists
have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market."
It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time. It's a mantra
conveniently invoked when it is proposed that government do something the faithful
don't like, and just as conveniently ignored whenever they want government to
do something for them.
-- Edward S. Herman
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hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth
the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our
Government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
-- Thomas
Jefferson | 
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