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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Thursday, September 04, 2008

John Lennon Quotes

"Henry Ford sold his cars with advertising. I'm selling peace. Yoko and I are just a big advertising campaign. That might make people laugh, but it also might make them think."

"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted. "

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason."

"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Labor Day Postings

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Signs placed along the 5/405 corridor, Orange County CA, Sept. 1st.)

"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few born to ride them." —Thomas Jefferson

"Never forget, people died for the eight hour workday." —Rebecca Gordon

"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed." -Vaclav Havel

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie

Monday, September 01, 2008

Some From Labor Day Weekend

"What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it." -Mark Twain

(Signs placed on the 80, 580, 880 and 101, August 29th.)
"No one who works for a living should live in poverty." —Edward Kennedy

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" -Don Marquis

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." -Albert Einstein

"Without labor nothing prospers." —Sophocles

"Don't mourn for me--ORGANIZE!" —Joe Hill

"Don't organize. Do Something!" -Scarlet P.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Barack Obama Quotes

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

(All signs are hand-painted and lettered with an overhead projector. Each was placed next to a major California freeway and all stayed up for at least five days. More info here.)

"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America."

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. ... Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

"I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne."