Occupy Wall Street Quotes

• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  Dana Spiotta

  Giving Up, Wall, Mean

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• I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

  Simon Baker

  Wall, Thinking, Voice

  "Simon Baker Talks Margin Call, Occupy Wall Street, The Mentalist, and His Thoughts on Doctor Strange". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

  Jon Meacham

  Country, Wall, America

  "Show Them the Money" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. October 12, 2011.

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• From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.

  Dan Rather

  Wall, Spring, Japan

  "I’ve Discovered Facebook" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

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• It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

  Colin Powell

  Wall, Anger, Political

  "Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations Are ‘As American As Apple Pie’". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

  John Garamendi

  Dream, Jobs, Good Life

  "House Republicans Continue to Block Commonsense Make It In America Policies" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Wall, Democracy, Example

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• When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?

  Artur Davis

  Jobs, Children, Wall

  Speech At 2012 Republican Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I guess that's why they call it Hell.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Hangover, Golf, Hell

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• Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

  Eric Alterman

  Wall, Anger, Inspiration

  "Think Again: The Era of the ‘One Percent’" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Wall, Broken, Doe

  "Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Running, Wall, Party

  "As coherent an articulation of our economic problem as any I have seen in my lifetime" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

  Elayne Boosler

  Wall, Two, Force

  "Occupy Wall Street — and What Charles Schwab Owes Kittens and Puppies" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important. The US corporations dominate Washington. The big oil companies, Wall Street banks and the military-industrial complex - they rule this country and their influence and power has to be broken.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Wall, Military

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• What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

  Colin Powell

  Wall, Thinking, People

  "Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations Are ‘As American As Apple Pie’". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

  John Lydon

  Wall, Leader, Political

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

  Russ Feingold

  Wall, Real, Occupy Movement

  "Russ Feingold: A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Death Race, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

  Dennis Prager

  Wall, Confused, Class

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• I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

  Talib Kweli

  Wall, Lazy, Saws

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with Mother Jones, kalamu.com. August 26, 2013.

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• If Occupy Wall Street was actually a march, and people from all around the country could collect and march toward Washington, D.C., as part of this massive movement of people . . . I think that kind of pressure is much more powerful than a sit-in that seems to be a little unorganized.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Country, Wall, Powerful

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists.

  Katie Pavlich

  Wall, People, Movement

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.

  Jamie Glazov

  Wall, Fall, Media

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• It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Wall, Party, Cutting

  "Economic Malpractice and the Millennials". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Conservative concepts believe in little government - take care of yourself, and that makes men who invent things like the constitution! Liberal thought has big government - we'll take care of you - and that creates boys and they create things like Occupy Wall Street! There's a difference between the way men and boys behave.

  Brad Stine

  Wall, Believe, Boys

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• All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects of inequality, so they didn't have a lot to lose. And then the individuals who were louder, more disruptive and, in many ways, more effective at drawing attention to their concerns were immediately castigated by authorities. They were cordoned off, pepper-sprayed, thrown in jail.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Drawing, Jail

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