“The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.” — Lucretia Mott …

“We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.” –- Marian Wright Edelman …

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
– Edmund Burke, statesman and writer
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“Every people has the right to choose the country under which it wishes to live.” — Woodrow Wilson …

“It’s our belief that … rebels …are the great hope and the true leaders of our country. With desire and determination, you can be one of them.” — Jim Hightower …

“You don’t have to be part of the world of the lynchers. You do have a choice. You can join the other America. The other America has always been here. From the time the first slave ship arrived. It is the people who fought against slavery. Against injustice. The people who fought for humanity. It was Black and it was white.” — William Paterson, an African American activist …

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” — attributed to Ronald Reagan …

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” — Frederick Douglass …

“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.” – prominent black journalist Carl T. Rowan …

“Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman’s weapon is her tongue.” — actress Hermione Gingold …