“Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class and brutalizes our lower class.” — Matthew Arnold. …

From his introduction to the US edition of the book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, George Monbiot says, “The rest of the world cannot solve this problem without the United States, and the United States cannot solve it without the rest of the world. We could tear each other to pieces over what has happened in the recent past, but climate change is too important for that.” …

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …

“It is not gender which is destroying our culture…. it is our interpretations of culture which has destroyed gender equality” — Cambodian civil society group …

“You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead — just play with this — if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world — and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded — we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace.” -– Bill Hicks …

“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police” – Albert Einstein …

“There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media.” — Bill Moyers …

“Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…” – Julia Ward Howe – another quote from her Mother’s Day Proclamation.
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“Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

— Julia Ward Howe, excerpt from 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation …

“Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.” — John Dewey …