“Education: Man’s going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.” — Kenneth G. Johnson …

“We are constantly being told that we don’t have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn’t happening because it isn’t happening to them.” — Jane Elliot …

“I say without any pride that I did my job as a soldier. I commanded an infantry squad in combat and we never failed to accomplish our mission. But those who called me a coward, without knowing it, are also right. I was a coward not for leaving the war, but for having been a part of it in the first place. Refusing and resisting this war was my moral duty, a moral duty that …

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“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.” – Audre Lorde …

“No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.” — Frederica Mathewes-Green …

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.” — John Berger …

“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.” — Allen Ginsberg …

“Everyone can make a difference and it does not have to do with real arms, but in all of your strengths. If you are a writer, write! An organizer, organize! An artist, express! These can all be weapons of change.” — excerpt of a 1996 statement by the EZLN at an Encuentro in Chiapas. …

“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” – Swiss writer, Henri Frederic Amiel …

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.” — Frederick Douglass …