“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” –- Thomas Paine

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“Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.” –- Shirley Chisholm …

“Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life.” — Alice Foote MacDougall …

“Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.” -– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.” — Henrik Tikkanen …

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country” –- Franklin Delanore Roosevelt …

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” — Charlie Chaplin …

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” — Susan B. Anthony …

“The principal goal of education is to create [humans] who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.” — Jean Piaget …

“That man be delivered from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms.” — Friedrich Nietzsche …