Johann Johannsson - An Injury To One Is The Concern Of All [The Miners' ...

from Edward Bond, THE ACTIVIST PAPERS

“[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these things distorts the culture it derives from them and that this makes its culture irrational and an enemy of civilization.” Edward Bond, The Activist Papers

Brecht on suicide...

BILL FAY - BE NOT SO FEARFUL

from the end of Edward Bond, The Worlds

…[I]f you know what sort of world you're in you have to change it.


Well what world is it? The poor are starving. The rich are getting ready to blow it up. Terrorists threaten with guns? We do it with bombs. One well-heeled American with his finger on the button. That's sick. And there's worse than that. The ignorance we live in. We don't understand what we are or what we do. That's more dangerous than bombs. We're all terrorists. Everyone of us. We live by terror. Not even to make a new world: just to keep one that's already dead. In the end we'll pay for that as much as the lot whore starvin now.


– Edward Bond, The Worlds

SAFTU - This Is What We Stand For | The Bullet No. 1401

SAFTU - This Is What We Stand For | The Bullet No. 1401

letter to Jefferson on the Indians and forests....

The inhabitants of your country districts regard—wrongfully, it is true— Indians and forests as natural enemies which must be exterminated by fire and sword and brandy, in order that they may seize their territory. They regard themselves, themselves and their posterity, as collateral heirs to all the magnificent portion of land which God has created from Cumberland and Ohio to the Pacific Ocean.

—Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours letter to Thomas Jefferson,

December 17, 1801