April 14

"I question her judgement voting for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy in the history of this country," he said.

He then went on to attack the former first lady for voting for "virtually every disastrous trade agreement."

"And I question her judgement," he added, "about running super-PACs which are collecting tens of millions of dollars from special interests including $15 million from Wall Street."

May 29

Bernie Sanders warned on Sunday that Hillary Clinton must choose a left-wing candidate as running mate if the Democratic party is to win the presidential election.

The comments came amid mounting criticism that Mrs Clinton's campaign is poorly equipped to take on Donald Trump.

Mr Sanders cautioned that to beat the bombastic Republican nominee, the Democratic party must defend working families by choosing a non-traditional candidate who would stand up to "Wall Street" and the "greed of corporate America".

"That means having a candidate who can excite working families, excite young people, bring them into the political process, create a large voter turnout," said Mr Sanders in a television interview. "It means someone who has a history of fighting for working families."

June 1

“Secretary Clinton and I obviously have many, many differences of opinions on many issues, but on the issue of fracking, our differences of opinion are pretty profound,” he said. “I think it is too late for regulation. I think fracking ought to be banned in America.”

July 3

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says Hillary Clinton’s allies are frustrating his plan to have the Democratic Party platform rule out a congressional vote this year on a Pacific rim trade deal negotiated by the Obama administration.

“The Democratic Party must go on record in opposition to holding a vote on this disastrous, unfettered free-trade agreement during the lame-duck session of Congress and beyond,” Mr. Sanders said in a column published Sunday in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He said that an amendment to that effect offered at a St. Louis platform-drafting session late last month was defeated “with all of Hillary Clinton’s committee members voting against it.”

July 12

"This election is about the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that currently exists, the worst it has been since 1928. Hillary Clinton knows that something is very wrong when the very rich become richer while many others are working longer hours for lower wages."

"She understands that we must work with countries around the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy – and that when we do that we can create a whole lot of good paying jobs."

Then there's this from Eugene Debs in Canton, Ohio in 1918...

"There is but one thing you have to be concerned about, and that is that you keep foursquare with the principles of the international Socialist movement. It is only when you begin to compromise that trouble begins. So far as I am concerned, it does not matter what others may say, or think, or do, as long as I am sure that I am right with myself and the cause. There are so many who seek refuge in the popular side of a great question.

As a Socialist, I have long since learned how to stand alone. For the last month I have been traveling over the Hoosier State; and, let me say to you, that, in all my connection with the Socialist movement, I have never seen such meetings, such enthusiasm, such unity of purpose; never have I seen such a promising outlook as there is today, notwithstanding the statement published repeatedly that our leaders have deserted us. Well, for myself, I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week.

If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses—you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks."

The whole thing is worth a read: https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/canton.htm

Mario Savio, December 1964

"And that -- that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!"

Martin Luther King, April 1967

"Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor."

another great read: http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_bey...

Don't like Jill Stein? Here are some options:

Gloria La Riva, Party for Socialism and Liberation (Florida, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, Washington), Peace and Freedom Party (California)

http://www.pslweb.org/

Mimi Soltysik, Socialist Party USA (Colorado, Michigan)

http://socialistparty-usa.net/

Monica Morehead, Workers World Party (New Jersey)

http://socialistparty-usa.net/

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