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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
- Booker T. Washington
I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.
- Noam Chomsky
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
- Charles de Foucauld
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
- Malcolm X
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
- Mark Twain
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.
- James Douglass
War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny.
- Charles DeGaulle
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
- John Boyes
The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.
- Kenneth Boulding
Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.