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CORPORATE PERSONHOOD QUOTES

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...corporate personhood is a real scandal...the meaning of the 14th Amendment was expanded so that 'person' included corporations, and over the years corporations have gotten rights that are way beyond those of persons of flesh and blood...there's plenty of anti-corporate feeling in the country but it's unfocused... a constitutional amendment would be a great idea... there has to be a lot of organizing and educational work to build up a major groundwell of support which will call for restoring the 14th Amendment to what the words say...the idea that a corporation should be given personal rights is a major attack on classical liberal doctrines which held that rights inhere in 'persons' - persons of flesh and blood, not collectivist legal entities established by state power...
-- Noam Chomsky

This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations Are Not People!' Wow, I thought we were past the point in this country where some people aren't people just because they have different color skin or different religion or were born in a lawyer's office, only exist on paper, have no soul and can never die. -- Stephen Colbert

“Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.
-- Stephen Colbert

Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands ...(Just A Giant Middle Finger) -- Stephen Colbert

Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)’s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant. -- Stephen Colbert

“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

... challege the underlying concepts of corporate personhood ...
-- Dennis Kucinich

It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's time for us to look at the practices of corporations and holding them accountable for violations of law which often go unnoticed because there is very little regulation.
-- Dennis Kucinich

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
-- Bill Moyers

“Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.”
-- Bill Moyers

Fighting Corporate Personhood can be a tangible realistic goal to focus the Occupy Movement, and greatly accelerate the widespread emerging global holistic movement for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world that can transform our global economy into a true global community.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

You can help end corporate control of our democracy. Help pass local, state and national legislation revoking corporate personhood. (PeopleArePeople.us)
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

I still do not understand how a corporation can have person-hood if it has no soul and never dies.
-- Jon Stewart
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