Hero

“I’m on the edge, I’m not liking this. A lot of people have bought into the notion that you have to fund the troops. Funding the troops means more troops are going to die.”

-- Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.)

Within

“As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.”

-- Saul Alinsky

RIP Molly Ivins

Two things she once said.

1: rulers lie

2: The times when people are most afraid to challenge authority are also the times when it’s most important to do just that.