I strongly encourage you to read, view, and/or listen to the thoughts of the following people:
David Barsamian
Barbara Boxer
Helen Caldecott
George Carlin
Noam Chomsky
John Conyers
Bob Dylan
Dwight Eisenhower (dec.)
Al Franken
Benjamin Franklin (dec.)
Mahatma Gandhi (dec.)
Amy Goodman
Thom Hartmann
Jim Hightower
Andrew Jackson (dec.)
Thomas Jefferson (dec.)
Dennis Kucinich
Abraham Lincoln (dec.)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (dec.)
James Madison (dec.)
Robert McChesney
Michael Moore
Bill Moyers
Ralph Nader
Thomas Paine (dec.)
Greg Palast
Michael Parenti
Charles B. Rangel
Franklin Roosevelt (dec.)
Theodore Roosevelt (dec.)
Arundhati Roy
Jon Stewart
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens, Dec.)
Gore Vidal
Roger Waters
Paul Wellstone (dec.)
Howard Zinn