“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?” -– Dave Barry …

“There are men who struggle for a day
and they are good.
There are men who struggle for a year
and they are better.
There are men who struggle many years,
and they are better still.
But there are those who struggle all their lives:
These are the indispensable ones.”

— Bertold Brecht – dedicated to Don White
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“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.” — George Orwell …

“Action springs not from thought, but from readiness for responsibility.” — Dietrich Bonhoffer …

“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” -– Andy Warhol …

“It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.” — S. Radhakrishnan …

“Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.” — Howard Zinn …

“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” – Abbie Hoffman …

“You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won’t help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.” -– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …