:: Prepared text of speech at the Brazilian Social Forum, November 8, 2003 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil ::

"When a country — particularly “a democracy” — goes to war, the passive consent of the governed lubricates the machinery of slaughter. Silence is a key form of cooperation, but the war-making system does not insist on quietude or agreement. Mere passivity or self-restraint will suffice to keep the missiles flying, the bombs exploding and the faraway people dying."

"The point I’m making in this article is that there are MORE of us that are aware than our corporate owned media will tell us. The youth of this country is ALRIGHT, actually quite fabulous I may add."

"The three Ds of attack propaganda are: Denial, Denigration and Dishonesty. All are present here."

"Because the United States is engaged not only in a war on terror, but an intensive effort to engage the Muslim world through a public diplomacy campaign, Boykin's remarks have caused real concern."

"Between the time that the Partition Plan was signed (Nov. 29, 1947) and Israel was proclaimed (May 15, 1948) zionist forces had dispossessed more than 300,000 Palestinians. By December, they had seized 78 percent of Palestine and more than 400 Arab villages. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine put the total figure of Palestinian refugees at 726,000."

"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men."

- Woodrow Wilson [U.S. President during World War I]

"What the Iraqi people appear to be telling us is that they have hope for the future, but they want the help of their neighbors more than that of the U.S."

"Having witnessed the consequences of a unilateral preemptive foreign and military policy, the collapse of the Middle East peace process, and the decided tilt of the U.S. in support of Israel, American voters want a new approach."