Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
~ Frederick Douglass
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Institute for Policy Studies The Institute for Policy Studies turns Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice and the Environment; since 1963, we have empowered people to build healthy and democratic societies in communities, the U.S., and the world.
Transnational Institute Founded in 1974, TNI is an international network of activist-scholars committed to critical analysis of the global problems of today and tomorrow.
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.
~ Cesar Chavez