“History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it — as with these — life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life.” — Henry Steele Commager …

“America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.” – Senior Senator Barbara Mikulski …

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin …

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” –- Bertrand Russell …

“We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.” — Susan B. Anthony, Declaration of Rights for Women, July 1876 …

“We, the people, are going to have to put our thoughts together to save our planet here. We only have One Water… One Air…One Mother Earth.” – the late Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone spiritual leader …

“We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow.’ His name is ‘Today.’” –- Gabriela Mistral …

“Pharmaceutical companies will soon rule the world if we keep letting them believe we are a happy, functional society so long as all the women are on Prozac, all children on Ritalin, and all men on Viagra.” – author unknown …

“North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.” — Fidel Castro …

“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.” — William Bernbach quotes (American advertising executive, 1911-1982)
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