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marmar

(77,056 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2012, 09:48 PM Apr 2012

"The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning ........

[font size="4"]...... of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power."[/font]
- Howard Zinn




The fact that so many people are trying to discourage it indicates it's already having an impact.


[font size="4"]“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”[/font]
- Martin Luther King Jr.


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"The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning ........ (Original Post) marmar Apr 2012 OP
K & R! lonestarnot Apr 2012 #1
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