The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.
– E.O. Wilson
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children forever. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. -
-Theodore Roosevelt
You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.
– Harry S. Truman
It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
— Bill Watterson
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
— Thomas Edison
Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power.
— Chelsea Manning
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
— Pablo Casals
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind, and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
— Thomas Edison
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
— Booker T. Washington
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.
– Joan Baez
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
– Lysander Spooner
Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
– Martin Luther King
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
– Voltaire
A people don’t lose freedom overnight. They lose it by accepting injustice…one day at a time.
– Malcolm X
A society grows great when old people plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit.
– proverb
