“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” — George Bernard Shaw …

“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.” — Chief Seattle …

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.” — Cesar Chavez

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“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” – Carl Sagan …

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” — Edward Everett …

“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.” — Bill Moyers
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“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” — Nelson Mandela …

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold …

“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.” — Jeff Goodell

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“The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.” — Stokely Carmichael
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