Ralph Nader Quotes

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• If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest,… Bicycle
• Secrecy destroys accountability. Accountability
• Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental… Abolition
• The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform… Abusive
• The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man. Allegiance
• By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you. Balance
• Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,… Articles
• The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the… Afforded
• The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. Create
• Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers. Answer
• This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out. Been
• Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations. Adjourned
• This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now. Civilians
• Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication. Communication
• We must strive to become good ancestors. Ancestor
• The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses. Addresses
• A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more… Abdication
• The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA. Age
• Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that… America
• Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew… Been

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