August 31 - Monday Quote

It's a new century, but very little has changed.  And thanks to Citizens United, our democracy is on a course to get worse.  The biggest megaphones are available only to those who can afford to buy them, while the average American lives only with what is allowed.  Asking for more will get the neediest labeled "lazy" while those with the most are granted bigger and stronger nets in order to ensure their every nickel is safe within their personal grasp.   

monday quote:

"This country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.  The majority of mankind are working people.  So long as their fair demands—the ownership and control of their livelihoods—are set to naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights.  The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease."  

(Helen Keller, humanitarian and co-founder of the ACLU, 1880-1968)