Justin Sane Quotes

• Technology isn’t the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I’m not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

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• If you don’t write good music, people aren’t going to listen to anything you say.

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• I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

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• From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world’s problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

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• My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

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• Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

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• In ‘The General Strike,’ we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.

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• Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

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• The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

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• The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. ‘The General Strike’ attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

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• There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

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• We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

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• With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

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Justin Sane (13)

Birth:	21st February, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Musician, Singer

About

Sane was born the youngest child in a working class Irish-American family, and cites his parents as inspirations. They opened the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh, inspiring Sane to become a vegetarian and animal rights advocate. As a boy he saw his parents participate in rallies, and as he got older he participated.

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