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“There’s a brutal imperial power that my passport says I represent, but it will never represent where my heart lives.”
- Ani DiFranco

“Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
- George Washington

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“This much is true: you have been lied to.”
- Ron Paul

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both a moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; these will continue ’til they are resisted with either words or blows, or both.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
- Frederick Douglass

“They must find it difficult… those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as the authority.”
- Gerald Massey

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer

“In a time of universal deceit -
telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
- George Orwell

“Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act.”
- Albert Einstein

“Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.”
- Victor Hugo

“…whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.”
- Max Ehrmann

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
- Gandhi

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
- Gandhi

“Between the wish and the thing, life lies waiting.”
- Anonymous

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
- John Lennon

“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
- Maya Angelou

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
The radical invents the views.
When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
- Mark Twain

“A patriot must always be ready to defend
his country against his government.”
- Edward Abbey

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
- Howard Zinn

“People should not fear their government.
A government should fear its people.”
- V

“A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.”
- Emma Goldman

“Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight.”
- Bob Marley

“You’re not supposed to be so blind
with patriotism that you can’t face reality.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”
- Malcolm X

“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those
who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.”
- Dante

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
- MLK

“A true revolution of values will say of war:
‘This way of settling differences is not just.’
I call on every man and woman of goodwill all over America:
Take a stand on this issue.
Tomorrow may be too late; a book may close.
And I don’t know about you –
I ain’t going to study war no more.”
- MLK

“Not all who wander are aimless.”
- Mona Lisa Smile

“Children may forget what you taught them,
but they’ll never forget how you treated them.”
- Anonymous

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply,
to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
- Storm Jameson

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
[I think I made you up inside my head.]”
- Sylvia Plath (Mad Girl’s Love Song)

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you… As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson

“People are often unreasonable,
illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and
it may just never be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it’s all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.”
- Mother Theresa