“Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.” — Samuel Johnson …

“There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions – realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.” — Geoffrey Fisher …

“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn …

“The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.” — Marian Wright Edelman …

“Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.” — Oscar Wilde …

“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself up in the flag.” — former Texas Congressman Craig Washington. …

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle, 1855 …

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.” — Mark Twain …

“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower …

“The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.” — Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India …