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Social change does not spring forth from the minds of generals or presidents-in fact, change is often blocked by the powerful. Change starts with ordinary people working in their communities. And that's where media should start as well.

— Amy Goodman The Exception to the Rulers written with David Goodman (2004)

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In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

Journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on power, not win popularity contests.

Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

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