“Guns and violence are in every nook and cranny of America. Many children can get a gun quicker than they can get a book out of the library. That puts us all at risk.” – Marian Wright Edelman …

“In true courage, there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.” — Brenda Ueland …

“We are all actors; being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.” – Augusto Boal …

“Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.” — Judge Sturgess …

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.” — C. Wright Mills …

“Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.” — Dwight D Eisenhower …

“We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can’t speak for themselves, such as the birds, animals, fish, and trees.” — Qwatsinas …

“If ever we had proof that our nation’s pollution laws aren’t working, it’s reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.” — Louise Grillmair …

“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.” – Hunter S. Thompson …

“Slavery has been with us for more than 5000 years, yet with concentrated and coordinated effort, we can eliminate it in a generation.” — Benjamin Skinner …