Status Updates From Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting P...

still too much psychoanalysis for my taste, wondering when we get to what the title says?

seems to be trying too hard to make the case for parallels between apathetic Americans and abuse victims, but I can go along with the zombifying effect of TV

it seems this was written before Occupy, but I hope it will still provide some insight, many of the problems discussed in the opening chapters are ongoing

If, as is often the case, nobody can be elected who is not wealthy, and if nobody can be wealthy without dependence on the corporate economy, then what is your vote worth?"

If i m not for myself, who will be for me? If i am only for myself, what am i? And, if not now, when?

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted

"To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid... Children come to school curious; within a few years that curiosity is dead, or at least silent"

The fact is millions of us in this country are fully and painfully aware that this society does not permit us to live as human beings... it seems that you don't seem to get the fact that the SOLE REASON Americans aren't being physical tortured and killed en masse is because they ACCEPT THEIR OPPRESSION. You show me a new American Revolution, and Ill show you a population crushed by a tank.

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