Why Did they Say That??!!

It is easy to say something in the name of "good" but to be someone who follows their convictions to stand up for those who most need it and for the right thing is what I admire most. That is why I have a great love for the younger Muhammad Ali who risked everything because he didn't believe in the corrupt system that existed and which still does. We can be like him and others we have seen make sacrifices in the name of good no matter how big or small. We must first look for the truth and enlighten others of it. Here are some quotes from a few people that sum up a lot of what I believe in. Maybe it will encourage you to delve into why they are saying these things and to make clear the clips underneath each quote are different speeches so check them out.....


“I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain’t going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I’ll die right here, right now, fightin’ you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won’t even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won’t even stand up for me right here at home. ”
-Muhammad Ali (Boxer,Humanitarian)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali

“Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Don't give up the fight ”
- Bob Marley (Musician)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.” 
- Martin Luther King (Civil Rights Activist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
- Malcolm X (Civil Rights Activist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X

“Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not in-alignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.” 
- Russell Brand (Comedian, Activist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”  
- Carl Sagan (Scientist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

 “You do a commercial folks, you're off the artistic roll call for ever. You're another corporate shill, you're a whore at the capitalist gang bang, and if you do a commercial  there's a price on your head. Everything you say is suspect and everything that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink.”
- Bill Hicks (Comedian)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks

“If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they wont ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they wont call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passsively. And that's optimal for corporations economic health.”
- Noam Chomsky (Philosopher)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

BY EM.