“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” — Ambrose Bierce …

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” — Frederick Douglas …

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
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“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

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“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ? Benjamin Franklin …

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” — John F. Kennedy …

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” — Wendell Berry …

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt …

“..We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Admittedly, we’ve used our brain in ways that are detrimental to the environment and society, but brains
are beginning to get together around the planet to find solutions to some of the harm that we’ve inflicted.
And, you know, we humans are a problem-solving species.” — Jane Goodall …