Amy Goodman > Quotes

“I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game. ”
― Amy Goodman

“Go to where the silence is and say something.”
― Amy Goodman

“The media—stenographers to power.”
― Amy Goodman

“Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes...reach the light of day?”
― Goodman, Amy

“Journalists are not entertainers. We are reporters. We go to places that are unpopular. We broadcast voices that are controversial. We are not here to win popularity contests. We are here to cover the issues critical to a democratic society. We have to pressure the media, to shame the media into going into these forgotten places where so many are sent to waste away in silence.”
― Amy Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them

“Oil is the source of so much pain in the world.”
― Amy Goodman

“More and more people are saying 'no' to government lies, corporate greed, and a slavish media.

The silenced majority is finding its voice.”
― Amy Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them

“We need a media that does not simply serve as a stenographer to those in power.”
― Amy Goodman

“she was roughly handcuffed and arrested. Julio was roughed up and arrested as well—all for closing an account at Citibank.”
― Amy Goodman, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope

“The river is rising. All over the planet the floods come often and the structures we build to contain them prove more ineffectual. It does not matter what kind of dikes we build. We can throw up massive security forces and still the drugs move at will. We can build big steel walls and still the people cross and move and mock the walls. We can create quarantines and still the plagues migrate to new ground and flesh. The world we think we believe in is ending before our eyes and no amount of meetings or discussions will come up with enough sandbags to stop the flow. Our fathers and mothers placed their faith in the new high dams. We sense the rivers cannot really be tamed.”
― Amy Goodman, Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground

“They see us in two ways, as the sword and the shield. The sword because all too often the United States provides weapons to human rights abusing regimes like the Indonesian government or uses the weapons itself like in Iraq or Afghanistan. But they also see the American people as a shield. That way they saw that shield bloodied and just deepened their despair.”
― Amy Goodman

“Only when the media shines a spotlight can people know and decide whether to act.”
― Amy Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them

“In the beginning was the light and light was with life and the light was life and the earth quickened, and we came out of the ground to yearn forever and never reach the light but to tumble through generations, our skins afire with this lust for the light and we go toward the light or we go toward nothing and we become nothing. That is all.”
― Amy Goodman, Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground