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AUTHOR QUOTES

poetry, prose, and more.... 

(List of sources at bottom)

 

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"A good traveller has no fixed plans 

and is not intent on arriving." 

- Lao Tzu (570-490 BC) 

 

 

A

 

Milton Acorn

*Lord Acton

Francis W L Adams

Alfonso The Wise

Grant Allen

Ralph K Andrist

Anonymous

Matthew Arnold

 

B

 

Homer Barnett

James Matthew Barrie

Edward Bellamy

Wendell Berry

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

William Blake

Auguste Blanqui

Robert Blatchford

William Blum

Murray Bookchin

Berton Braley

Louis Brandeis

Bertolt Brecht

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Cullen Bryant

Francis Bugotu

Robert Burns

George Dubya Bush

Smedley Butler

*Lord Byron

 

C

 

 

Albert Camus

*Canassatego

Thomas Carlyle

*Chief Joseph

*Chief Sitting Bull

Noam Chomsky

Ward Churchill

Winston Churchill

Cicero

Confucius

Rachel Corrie

Stephen Corry

George Crabbe

Stephen Crane

 

D

 

 

Clarence Darrow

Charles Darwin

John Davidson

Dorothy Day

Eugene V Debs

Daniel Defoe

Emily Dickinson

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Theodore Dreiser

 

 

E

 

 

Albert Einstein

W M Eiselen

Ebenezer Elliott

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

F

 

Norman Finkelstein

George William Foote

Charles Fourier

Anatole France

Paulo Freire

Sigmund Freud

 

 

G

 

 

Henry George

Khalil Gibran

Hermann Goering

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Emma Goldman

Maxim Gorky

Horace Greeley

 

 

H

 

 

Frederic Harrison

Lafcadio Hearn

Heinrich Heine

Ernest Hemingway

Robert Herrick

George D Herron

Georg Herwegh

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Eric Hobsbawm

Thomas Hood

Kenko Hoshi

Charles C Hughes

Langston Hughes

Victor Hugo

John M Hunter

 

 

I

 

 

Robert G Ingersoll

Molly Ivins

 

 

J

 

 

Thomas Jefferson

David Starr Jordan

 

 

K

 

 

Omar Khayyam

John Keats

Helen Keller

Harry Kemp

Martin Luther King

Peter Kropotkin

Milan Kundera

 

 

L

 

 

Robert Lawless

Emma Lazarus

John le Carré

Jay Leno

Michael Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Jack London

Charles Templeman Loram

James Russell Lowell

 

 

M

 

 

Niccolo Machiavelli

Nelson Mandela

*Cardinal Manning

Mao Tse-Tung

Edwin Markham

Karl Marx

John Masefield

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Katherine Mayo

Margaret Mead

Herman Merivale

John Stuart Mill

Michel de Montaigne

Thomas More

Mutanabbi, (Abu al-Tayyib Ahmad ibn Husayn) al-

 

 

N

 

 

Max Nordau

 

 

P

 

 

Thomas Paine

Fredy Perlman

Wendell Phillips

Plato

Eugène Pottier

Lucien Price

 

 

R

 

 

David Rees

WHR Rivers

Morris Rosenfeld

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jonathan Rowe

Arundhati Roy

John Ruskin

Bertrand Russell

 

 

S

 

 

Carl Sandburg

George Santayana

Jean-Paul Sartre

Olive Schreiner

Robert W Service

William Shakespeare

George Bernard Shaw

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Upton Sinclair

Sophocles

Robert Southey

Herbert Spencer

John Swinton

(Sir) Leslie Stephen

Arthur Symons

 

 

T

 

Alfred Tennyson

Leo Tolstoy

Dalton Trumbo

Ivan Turgenev

Mark Twain

 

 

U

 

 

*Unknown

 

 

V

 

 

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Thorstein Veblen

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

 

W

 

George Washington

Mel Watkins

Lilla Watson

John Wellington

Walt Whitman

*Lady Wilde

*Gerard Winstanley

William Wordsworth

Frank Lloyd Wright

Philip Wylie

 

 

Y

 

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Saadi Youssef

 

 

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QUOTES BY SUBJECT

 

 

 

On Books and Reading

On Dispossession

On Youth

 

 

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OTHER QUOTES

government reports, periodicals, etc.

 

 

 

Akwesasne Notes

 

Alaska Natives Claims Settlement Act - ANCSA

 

British Parliamentary Papers

 

Grand Council of American Indians

 

 

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Sources for this feature

 

-The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations, edited by Charles Bufe (Tucson: Sharp Press; expanded edition, 1992)

 

-The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest, edited by Upton Sinclair (John C. Winston, 1915 - 1st ed.; and NY: Lyle Stuart, 1963 - 2nd edition; and with Edward Sagarin and Albert Teichner - 3rd ed., NY: Barricade Books, 1996)

 

-Victims of Progress, by John H. Bodley (Palo Alto: Mayfield Publishing, 2nd ed., 1982)

 

-Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown, 14th ed., 1968)

 

-Dictionary of Quotations, collected and arranged by Bergan Evans (NY: Delacorte Press, 1st ed., 1968)

 

-An extensive personal library of primary and secondary sources.

 

 

Online sources include:

 

-Working for Change (compiled by Geoff Parrish)

-www.marxists.org

-GIGA quotes

-World of Quotes (Today in History)

-Literature.org

-Wikipedia (Answers.com)

-Numerous literature and bookseller list-servs.

 

**Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that quoted works or portions thereof, as well as the use of photos or images are in the public domain, and that copyright for either length or content or use has not been infringed upon. If you have any reason to think otherwise please contact Richard Ménec at menecraj@shaw.ca.

 

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