Flora

“The world is going to turn upside down in a way that the honest man will live uncomfortably -- while the dishonest man will live very comfortably. Pay attention to the windows of the Four Seasons next time you stroll by their dining room. You will find thugs and hustlers of every creed living like true kings and queens.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I was shown mold, leaking pipes, exposed asbestos insulation, broken toilets, cracked floors, malfunctioning heating units, feces bubbling up from the sewer pipes in the basements. I had seen better government buildings in the slums of Tijuana. Neven and the boys from 23 told me it was bad but what I was seeing was worse than the Baghdad fire department, which actually got more than one hundred fifty million dollars from the United States government, while Detroit got zero.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy

“Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The corporate government is a blatantly corrupt group of people who make their living by willfully damaging the health and well being of your family.”
― Steven Magee