“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” — George Santayana

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“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.” — Margaret Mead …

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold …

“Decades of American arrogance and cupidity have brought us to this point. And millions of Afghans have paid for it…Change has got to come from concerned Americans… The United States needs to … draw down its troops [from Afghanistan] as soon as tactically possible. And America needs to prepare for the enormous humanitarian crisis that will predictably follow the inevitable fall of the corrupt Kabul government to the Taliban.” – Douglas Wissing, author of Funding …

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“If we don’t end war, war will end us.” — H. G. Wells …

“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” — Susan B. Anthony …

“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.” — Samuel Gompers …

“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.” — Samuel Gompers …