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Anne Hulthen

Thoreau's Civil Disobedience - 1 - 0 views

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  • He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish;
    • Anne Hulthen
      Anne Hulthen on 30 Oct 13
       
      This is kind of like Jimmy Carter, How sometimes the best person doesn't make the best president, because they lack the ability to persuade the caucus or play the politician.
  • All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. 
  • "This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other."(
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  • there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.(15) There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do,
  •  It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that
  • Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may.
  •   All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it.
  • There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves.
  • "I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico; — see if I would go";
  • ow many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one. Does not America offer any inducement for men to settle here? The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow (17) — one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect and cheerful self-reliance; whose first and chief concern,
  • and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute
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SEC proposal would disclose political donations by public corporations | WaPo - 0 views

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shared by avivajazz jazzaviva on 03 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 03 Sep 11
     
    SEC proposal would disclose political donations by public corporations - The Washington Post http://t.co/38N8bKe via @washingtonpost
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A way out of our dysfunctional politics - The Washington Post - 0 views

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shared by avivajazz jazzaviva on 31 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 31 Jul 11
     
    we can change the incentives that produce demonstrably bad government in Washington. We are not condemned to have a political system whose chief characteristics are venom, dysfunction and paralysis.
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Harry Reid: Wall Street's Joyride is Over // I Think He Overstates the Case for His Financial Reform Bill (By a LONG Shot) - 0 views

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#finreg financial-regulation financial-reform harryreid reform wallstreet bill legislation

shared by avivajazz jazzaviva on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 21 May 10
     
    He overstates the case for his Wall Street reform bill...by a LONG shot.
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Cleansing the Temple | The American Prospect - 0 views

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shared by avivajazz jazzaviva on 14 May 10 - Cached
  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 14 May 10
     
    Can financial reforms straighten out one of America's most byzantine institutions, the Federal Reserve?
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t r u t h o u t | Leahy Pushes Financial Reform Amendment to Protect Whistleblowers, Transparency - 0 views

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shared by avivajazz jazzaviva on 14 May 10 - Cached
  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 14 May 10
     
    Leahy Pushes Financial Reform Amendment to Protect Whistleblowers, Transparency
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The DISCLOSE Act: Schumer Bill to Lift the Veil of Secrecy from Unlimited Corporate Political Spending - 0 views

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shared by avivajazz jazzaviva on 12 May 10 - Cached
  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 12 May 10
     
    Legislative Battle Begins t
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The Big Bank Lobby: Too Big to Bare? | OurFuture.org - 0 views

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#finreg congress legislation corporatism fraud corruption too-big-to-fail bank-breakup financial-reform regulation deregulation

shared by avivajazz jazzaviva on 11 May 10 - Cached
  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 11 May 10
     
    Clearly, the only thing that limits the power of the banking lobby is the anger of American voters that the very banks that drove the economy over the cliff and were bailed out by taxpayers are now spending lavishly to block reforms needed to insure this doesn't happen again. That popular anger makes legislators reluctant to appear in the banks' pockets in public.
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9/11 & The Politics of No Return | The Seminal - 0 views

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shared by avivajazz jazzaviva on 10 May 10 - Cached
  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 10 May 10
     
    "the American political machinery, most likely had its fingerprints on all four deaths, the King, the Prophet, the Rebel, and the Reformer, and of course, countless other citizens who also resisted the naked aggression by the powers-that-be were murdered as well. This sinister conclusion about the nature of the current US government cannot be explained away as another rendition of defunct conspiracy theories. "
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