"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-68)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."
"True peace is not merely the absence of war; it is the presence of justice, equity and non-violent social order."
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-68)

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."
Confucius (551-479 BC)

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato (427-347 BC)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke (1729-97)

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

"Kno wing the other and knowing oneself, in one hundred battles no danger. Not knowing the other and knowing oneself, one victory for one loss. Not knowing the other and not knowing oneself, in every battle certain defeat."
Sun Tzu (appx. 300 BC)

"Victory is changing the hearts of your opponents by gentleness and kindness."
Salah al-Dīn Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1138-93)

"Writt en laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them."
Anacharsis (6th century BC)

"Only the educated are free."
Epictetus (55-135)

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)

"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining."
Fletcher (John Vernon) in Outlaw Josey Wales

"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."
Native American Indian Proverb

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana (1863-1952)

"Whe n I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it -- always."
Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
Buddha (563-483 BC)

"I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore, be wise as serpents, and innocent as doves."
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruits."
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
"If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Jesus
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