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Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist democracy (must-see)
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Select quotes from Chris Hedges‘ book,
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” — Frederick Douglass, page 160
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“Despotic regimes, in the end, collapse internally. Once the foot soldiers who are ordered to carry out acts of repression and violence to protect the elite no longer obey orders, disgraced regimes swiftly crumble.” — Chris Hedges, page 241
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“Any act of rebellion, no matter how few people show up or how heavily it is censored by a media that caters to the needs and profits of corporations, chips away at corporate power. Any act of rebellion keeps alive the embers for larger movements that follow us. It passes on another narrative. It will, as the rot of the state consumes itself, attract wider and wider numbers. Perhaps this will not happen in our lifetimes. But if we persist we will keep this possibility alive. If we do not, it will die.” — Chris Hedges, page 242
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