Quotes

A popular Madrid mural in support of multiculturalism

A popular Madrid mural in support of multiculturalism and asylum seekers -

Si tu dios es judio

Tu coche japones

Tu gas es argelino

Tu pizza es italiana

Tu cafe es brasileño

Tu vaccaciones marroquies

Tus cifras son arabes

Tus letras son latinas

¿ cómo te atrenes a decir que tu vecino es extranjevo?

If your God is Jewish

Your car Japanese

Your gas is from Algeria

Your pizza is Italian

Your coffee is Brazilian

You holiday in Morocco

Your numbers are Arabic

Your letters are Latin

Why do you say that your neighbour is a foreigner?

Banner/mural at Restaurante Achuri (a local bar), Lavapies district, Madrid

8/8/2k.

Translated by Marta Rello.

"Liberals are Anarchists by nature and constitutionalists by necessity". Michael Meadowcroft

"405 miles of new motorway and trunk road has been constructed compared to a pitiful 27 miles of new railway since the Labour government took over"

Norman Baker MP 28/03/07 (Liberal Democrat News)

theirs is a land with a wall around it And mine is a faith in my fellow man

"Sweet moderation

Heart of this nation

Desert us not"

Billy Bragg, 'Between the Wars' 1985.

"New opportunities... knock-knock-knocking in a boom time New opportunities... Let's forget about the gloom time..." Tom Robinson 'Living in a Boom Time' from Living in a Boom Time, album 1992.

"let us look forward, with the French philosopher Victor Hugo, to the day when the only battlefields will be those of markets open for business and the human spirit open for ideas." The words of Graham Watson MEP, speech to 55th Liberal International Congress, Belfast 17 May 2008.

http://www.grahamwatsonmep.org/speeches/000126/speech_to_the_55th_liberal_international_congress.html

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" Bob Dylan 1964.

"how many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?" Bob Dylan 'Blowin' in the wind' 1962.

"There are few subjects which are so obscure to the man in the street as the workings of the City of London and of the enormous financial power .. concentrated there."

The Bankers of London, Percy Arnold (The Hogarth Press, London, 1938) review copy 31 October 1938. From the Nicholas Willmott bookdealer collection, Cardiff. Arnold gives a run down of the men who control each of the banks and financial institutions and big companies and how the companies are linked with each other, with the aristocracy, politicians, and men of wealth. The public could probably do with such knowledge today December 2008).

"True friends of Israel must acknowledge that there can never be a military solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict." Jonathan Fryer, 'Liberator' magazine Issue 311, February 2009.

"Nationalism is not born but made. As a nationalist in my youth I know that this is not innate and neither inherently good or bad, just as religious affiliation and extremism of any kind are not a natural part of character, conscience or being. Those who pedal fanaticism and creed or ideology based on hatred must answer to history for debasing the virtues of a rational human being." Kiron Reid, 19 October 2009.