"This country was founded on the things I talk about. Paul Revere was running around saying, 'The redcoats is coming,' so he was basically saying, 'Here come the pigs, and a fuckup is going down.' We had a revolution or else we would be under the queen at this moment. We just celebrated July 4th, which is really just national Fuck the Police Day."

--Ice-T, from Rolling Stone Magazine 1992

"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom."

-- Noam Chomsky

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment."

-- Albert Einstein

"Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless. And add what is specifically your own."

-- Bruce Lee

"Whether you're here by birth, or whether you're in America by choice, you contribute to the vitality of our life. And for that, we are grateful."

-- George W. Bush in Washington, D.C. on May 17, 2002
explains how people born in the United States are not here by choice.