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  • "We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them."

    Mark Thomas

  • "The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes."

    Noah Webster

  • "The rich get the assets, the poor get the debt, and then the poor have to pay their whole salary to the rich every year just to live in a house."

    Gary Stevenson

  • "The principle of solidarity says, 'I will happily pay taxes so the kid across the street can go to school'."

    Noam Chomsky

  • "So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough."

    Shakespeare, King Lear (4.1)

  • "They have yet to consider that republicanism might largely be a cloak for oligarchic privilege—as it often is to this day—worn grudgingly by the elites as long as it proved serviceable to their interests."

    Michael Parenti