Brother Cornell at the Green Party Convention

In Houston, of all places.

"Indifference to evil is worse than evil itself."

"Don't let anybody tell you that somehow because you are voting for your vision, your principle, integrity, honesty, decency, and courage, that  [...] if you don't vote for one party as opposed to the other party, you're responsible for the catastrophe.  We understand the difference between a neo-fascist catastrophe and a neoliberal disaster."

Can I get an amen, brothers and sisters?

Julian Assange also made an appearance via video connection from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

“It’s very important not to allow the political process to suffer from extortion or even yourself to be susceptible to extortion… It’s important for those people who feel their principles have been violated in the way the Democratic primary process has been run or how Chelsea Manning been in prison for 35 years… to go OK, there’s a cost to violating principles, even if there’s also a cost to yourself, even if you don’t like the risk that Donald Trump becomes President. One has to have a line somewhere, otherwise as each election cycle proceeds you’re pushed further and further into the corner.

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"Wha the Clinton campaign is doing at the moment is trying to say, 'Yes, maybe we're connected to arms dealers and to Saudi Arabia, and yes maybe we subverted the integrity of the Democratic primary, etc., etc., but you'll just have to swallow that or else you’ll get Donald Trump. That’s a form of extortion.

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“What is happening now with the Green party and Gary Johnson and Bernie Sanders’ campaign is very important but it must be seen past the moment, past this political moment… (This is a) moment to build a movement and build pressure. Having built it, then, one can … hold accountable and check the abuses of government during the next four years… (Clinton and Trump) are two (of) the most unpopular pair of presidential candidates in U.S. history. … They are going to continue to generate oversight and resistance which will not only create a fertile field for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein to grow their support, but will create a very fertile field to understand and hold the government to account.

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"I’ve just seen the attacks have started to ramp up on Jill Stein. They are going to go thru the roof. Those attacks are going to be ferocious… You’ll learn lessons from that on how the media works.

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“Become your own media in practice in small ways and big ways… Keep your principles and sense of clarity on those principles.”
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