“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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“If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.” — William Greider …

“There will be no prison which can hold our movement down… The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.” –- Huey Newton …

“The gathering of more and more outlets under one owner clearly can be an impediment to a free and independent press.” — Walter Cronkite …

”All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King Jr …

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government. — Shirin Ebadi …

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -– George Orwell …

“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.” — James Madison …

“Does feminist mean a large unpleasant person who’ll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it’s the latter, so I sign up.” — Margaret Atwood …

“AIDS is essentially a crisis of governance, of what governments do and do not do to for their people …We have demanded too little from our leaders, excused far too much.” — Gregg Gonsalves, from a speech at the 2006 Toronto AIDS Conference …