“The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.” — Julian Bond …

“We won’t have a society, if we destroy the environment.” — Margaret Mead …

“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth the man walks on. It is not man.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” — George Orwell …

“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.” — Frederick Douglass …

“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. ” — George Monbiot …

“I was frequently amazed at how little media scrutiny there was of the industry and at how much my colleagues and I could get away with in dealing with reporters. More often than not they were quite willing to settle for what we fed them even if it was just pablum.” — Wendell Potter …

“As it turns out we don’t all have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. Nothing would be more important than to wipe the slate clean for everyone. Mark a break with our accustomed morality and start again.” — David Graeber …

“There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.” — Sophocles …

“The End of the World answers the question “What will it take to survive?” with the answer “Whatever it takes, hurry up.” — Reverend Billy …