“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.” — Edward Abbey …

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?”” — Eve Merriam …

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.” — Noam Chomsky

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“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.” — Chinua Achebe …

“All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” — Edmund Burke …

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.” — Oscar Wilde …

“Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can’t do anything about that.” -– Miriam Makeba …

“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.” — Sydney J Harris …

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” –- Marcus Garvey …