“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.” — attributed to Dante …

“What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralisation and disorder on the part of the inferior … jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.” — Florence Nightingale …

“Art is the heart’s explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.” — Luis J. Rodriguez …

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. — Ralph Nader …

“A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.” — George Bernard Shaw …

“Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower …

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — Martin Luther King Jr. …

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.” – Bell Hooks …

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” – Howard Zinn …

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed” — Mahatma Gandhi …