“You have no idea Representative, respectfully, how much time went into this version. Every business group that we could find voiced an opinion. We’ve had dozens of people working on this for the entire session. …
“I do this in part because someday my grandchildren will read about this in the history books and be distraught over the travesty and inhumanity of it and will ask me, ‘Grandma, how could you …
“We will not be a petty and cruel people…” Reverend Liz Lerner Maclay, First Unitarian Church of Providence
“A not-insignificant percentage of the population has so decisively internalized the values of the market for their labor that the act of re-sculpting themselves to better meet its needs feels like authentic expression.” –Adam Greenfield, …
“So young, loaded gun “Oblivious to what the trigger does “Will ya wake up, never gonna make up “Got ammunition on a mission gonna shoot you down “Man that’s so young, that’s so young…” –Portugal. …
“Without freedom, law is merely the expression of one person’s will over another. Without just and appropriate laws, freedom is just a license for chaos.” – Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser
“Keep your mouth shut, you’re squawking like a pink monkey bird And I’m busting up my brains for the words…” –David Bowie
“I live my life on birth control, I lost my mind to rock and roll,” –Janelle Monae
“…I know I’m asking a lot. The price of freedom is high, it always has been. And it’s a price I’m willing to pay. And if I’m the only one, then so be it. But …
The mechanisms, i.e. political parties, that we have that are supposed to organize and express discontent are, of course, precisely the organs that require the money that only the dominant groups possess. – Sheldon Wolin …
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