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"Richard Wilson tells me that he has pressed charges against the USDA for a violation of civil rights when a squadron of machine-gun wielding agriculture agents raided his nursery and accused him of smuggling in seeds. "They came in here like the goddamn Gestapo," he says angrily. "It was like they were gonna save us from terrorism. Six agents burst in and started rifling through everything trying to find illegal seeds. They orchestrated it like it was a big drug raid. It scared the shit outta my wife, not to mention my customers. They photographed stuff, and confiscated seeds." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"It may seem demand for equality and civil rights dawned with the 1960s civil rights protests on behalf of Black Americans. Actually, the fight for equality and respect has always been a quest in human existence. Whenever one people subjugated another, or whenever one segment of a society held itself above another, there has been strife. But as this new day arrives, we have for the first time manifested a world in which everyone is valued equally and has equal rights and equal opportunities." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"FROM civil rights ACTIVIST TO RACIST BOB BELLO was a successful entrepreneur and a business school professor. Yet he went on a rant against his students in class. It cost him his teaching job and his reputation in the community, and damaged his sense of himself. Bob had been prescribed Xanax 1 mg twice a day for tension by his general practitioner and within ten days he showed up at an emergency room stating that he was afraid he was going to have a "nervous breakdown." In the emergency room, Bob looked anxious, confused, and emotionally unstable." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The drugs of the 1960s were—at least initially, during the earnest and naive early days of the peace and protest and civil rights movements— ingested in some kind of en masse effort to enhance the spiritual consciousness of the youth who took them. For the most part, people took acid and smoked pot together, sharing the experience, for good or ill, as a collective unit." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Martin Luther King, the famous American pastor and civil rights leader once said, T have a dream.' He fought for the rights of the Afro-American community, and he won despite many obstacles. He fought against suppression and for social justice. He ended up in jail more than 30 times and many people tried to kill him. "Basically he created a movement. Many people, black and white, shared his vision. His dream was that all people were equal in the eyes of the law, whatever color they have. He fought against racism and he fought for freedom. What did he do?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"It may seem demand for equality and civil rights dawned with the 1960s civil rights protests on behalf of Black Americans. Actually, the fight for equality and respect has always been a quest in human existence. Whenever one people subjugated another, or whenever one segment of a society held itself above another, there has been strife. But as this new day arrives, we have for the first time manifested a world in which everyone is valued equally and has equal rights and equal opportunities." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Then in the 1960s, postmodern consciousness was adopted by the baby boom generation en masse as peace activists, feminists, civil rights leaders, artists, musicians, and the youth movement as a whole championed the values of the postmodern vision. It was also during this time that the peak experiences and spiritual insight provided by Eastern spirituality and psychedelic drugs shifted the consciousness of many into the postmodern worldview." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Consider Thomas Paine, who wrote the Revolutionary War pamphlet Common Sense, which caused the patriots to stand behind their demand for freedom; or Mahatma Gandhi, whose non-violent movement gained India its independence from Britain; or Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks whose acts of civil disobedience, courage and inspiring oration drove the civil rights Movement. But it doesn't have to be on such a grand scale. Millions of people whose names and faces have never appeared in a newspaper are changing the world." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"During the period of industrial capitalism, trade unions acted in defence of workers while they were at work, and the common law, together with a concept of civil rights, defended the citizen outside of work. With the passing of the classic 19th century relations between capital and labour, and, consequently, of the power of the manufacturing 'working class', a new, unprotected class of 'consumers' - citizens who buy goods, consume services or, in some cases, have services forced upon them - has arisen." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"Two Expert Opinions on the civil rights Act of 1964 "I favor the civil rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."13 —Ronald Reagan, October 20, 1965 "I would have voted against the civil rights Act of 1964."14 —Ronald Reagan, 1968 Race and Intelligence: Saved by the Bell Curve "[C]ertain national, racial and cultural groups are more intelligent than others."15 —H. J. Eysenck (British psychologist), 1981 "There are no true racial differences in innate or inherited intelligence."16 —Paul Witty and Martin D." - Christopher Cerf and Victor S. Navasky, The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Get the book.)

"Major civil rights breakthroughs owed their passage to decades of rural populist agitation and urban organizing. Women's suffrage, which finally passed in 1920, began to be a national issue in 1848 and was promoted by trade unions, the National Association of Colored Women, religious groups, and farm women. The eight-hour workday that was enacted in 1938 was first promoted seventy-four years earlier, in 1864, by workers, farmers, and reformers." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"One irony in Ramazzini's phrasing is the implication that an inanimate material (the toxin vitriol) was innocent until proven guilty and thus elevated to a level of civil rights protection denied most citizens of the time. Karl Marx was to make the same point in an early and important essay on the priority of rights given to fitewood over those of peasants desperate for fuel.2 decrying the costs, while blaming the victims Although Marx did not draw directly on Ramazzini in that particular work, he did cite Diseases of Workers in Das Kapital." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"This was a very radical civil rights movement for such an early date.4 The CWUttbrnft* State gnaw* Hfeadqpuucta* are st soon ? No. MB Oelitareia stem*. b. w^-gmoeul State Agent: t O. Ouron*. (Member of the Bsseu-ttroOammrittee). State Beeretery: W. H. ~ Pfctrana-vbono subscribers to the Bosuu. abosMpajfi^intecriptlom promptly fn order* to *a- -as the deputies of this state are only for ihel msnyof toum will soon exptef * vfllbtmemwtftrttimww' mfenons renewed to inform me, so tint b?tamed to replace the old. i. BL juatamm. officii ai* arotxgb." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"In the 1980s the Reagan administration even closed the USDA's Office of civil rights. In 1996 the agency made a feeble attempt to address racial discrimination by reopening the Office of civil rights and forming a civil rights Action Team, which issued a report concluding that "minority farmers have lost significant amounts of land and potential farm income as a result of discrimination by [the USDA]"35 and recommending actions to remedy the problem, few of which were ever implemented." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"Then again in the twentieth century, emerging postmodernism rejected the ethnocentric morality that condoned racism and the slaughter of innocents abroad and championed the political issues of civil rights, women's rights, and peace in Vietnam. The political issues of the war in Vietnam and the struggle for equality served to bring people together in a common cause. Thus many who adopted the postmodern world-view in the sixties and seventies did so because they had been politicized through their allegiance to these causes." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"In the first three decades of the twentieth century, most of the major farm magazines were preoccupied with both chemical agriculture and the Red Scare that they thought was behind all of the populist demands for labor protection and civil rights for farmworkers. Because of these preoccupations, some very significant advances in biological agriculture during this time were often buried on back pages of the farm journals or entirely ignored." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"The lure or "pull" that caused the baby boom generation to embrace postmodern consciousness in large numbers was found in the power of sixties music and the moral agendas of civil rights and peace in Vietnam. In academia the rise of postmodern values produced a new "critical paradigm" that sought to deconstruct the canon of Western knowledge by showing the subjectivity of what had been previously understood as "objective." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"I believe this because we live in a country that could rid itself of slavery, a country that finally allowed women to vote; a country that has come a long way in the short time since the civil rights movement began. But early on, each of those incredible changes was fiercely opposed by those in power, and none took place without great sacrifice. To free our corporations from sticky-fingered CEOs, to free our elected representatives from "pay to play money," and to free our people from these tyrants is going to take sacrifice and time. Perhaps another one hundred years." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"In fact, you may not even have to carry a picket sign, or even show up Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and her subsequent arrest signaled a turning point in the civil rights movement, 1956. physically at all, to make your point. More and more, protest is happening through the Net. In a capitalist society, it's even possible to protest with your wallet, by boycotting corporations and nations that engage in unethical practices. Along with everything else in the world, dissent is changing." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The ICNC documentary, also called A Force More Powerful, covers the American civil rights movement, the Indian independence movement, the Polish Solidarity labor movement, the Chilean movement that toppled the brutal dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, and the South African boycotts that helped end apartheid. Perhaps most inspiringly, it also tells the story of Danish resistance to the Nazi occupation. Overwhelmed by the Nazi war machine, the Danes practiced "resistance disguised as collaboration." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Direct action includes anything from arranging sit-ins (like the civil rights movement of the early 1960s) to chaining yourself to a bulldozer (like the radical Earth Liberation Front) to blocking off streets with impromptu human barriers and throwing parties where usually only cars dare to tread (like the UK-based Reclaim the Streets movement). Of course, direct action also includes firebombings, assassinations, and even harassing passers-by with low-fidelity megaphones and poorly spelled picket signs. But we're going to assume you're not evil enough to actually do any of those things." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"That is a violation of my civil rights and constitutional rights. When the government puts out opinions they are picked up by the media as fact. They hold more weight than any other group in this country. The government has a responsibility to put out information that is fair and balanced. The government also has a right to protect individuals' constitutional rights, not suppress them. • The press release states that I claim I don't profit from products and information in my book, but I can see that I do make profit from books sold on my website; therefore I am misleading the public." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "I will fight to the highest court in the land this continued suppression by the Federal Trade Commission and what I believe to be a clear violation of my civil rights. 8. I fully intend on running for political office and believe that this suppression is directly tied in to suppressing my political speech. 9. I am a journalist and investigative reporter and exercising my rights as such. 10. I am an activist. 11. Iam'TheWhistleblower." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "Their harassing tactics over the last few months should be viewed as civil rights violations, personal attacks, and retaliation against my very public negative comments against these government renegade agencies. When I saw this happen, I re-evaluated my business enterprise around the world, my personal mission statement, and my life's priorities. This is the conclusion that I have come to. My life is not about making money. My life is not about accumulation of wealth. My life is about my mission, which is to positively impact individual people and society." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Bob Dylan once sang about how the white Southerner who shot the black civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 was 'just a pawn in their game'. So are we all, pawns in the game of global warming. But we are not entirely powerless, nor entirely blameless. The collective hand that moves these pawns is our own. Peak oil We may not have the luxury of choosing whether to give up fossil fuels voluntarily, however." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Historically, progressive religious locales have been at the center of major social movements in the United States, most notably the abolition of slavery, the fight for civil rights, and antiwar activism. Such religious organizations and the buildings that house them are where the elderly and the homeless receive support, and where even the nonreligious can meet for entertainment and recreation." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"These movements include those focused on civil rights, the environment, women's rights, peace, jobs, social justice, gay and lesbian rights, alternative health care, spirituality, personal growth, and now, of course, stopping corporate globalization. All of those concerns are now converging into a strong concern for the whole planet." What distinguishes the thinking of a Cultural Creative? "Holistic thinking; that is, thinking in longer time horizons than the next quarter's profits, the next election cycle, or even one's own life span." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "The Center for Nonviolent Communication emerged out of work he was doing with civil rights activists in the early 1960s. During this period, he provided mediation and communication skills training to communities working to peacefully desegregate schools and other public institutions. Worldwide reactions to his work have been inspiring. Evaluations indicate that this training vastly strengthens the ability to connect compassionately with oneself and others, as well as to resolve differences peacefully." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"They collectively fought against civil rights, labor, and resource-protection movements with all the power that industry, government, and the press could muster. Nonetheless, even though they were outgunned and outspent, the populist movements on the farms and in the cities remained strong throughout the first two decades of the twentieth century. But after that, working people and small-scale farmers became increasingly desperate as economic times worsened and the depression sapped people's optimism." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

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