“Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.” – Nelson Mandela

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“The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress.” — Charles Fourier
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“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.” — Henry David Thoreau …

“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” — Albert Einstein
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“The test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.” — David Korten …

“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to “create” rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” — Justice William J. Brennan, 1982 …

“A proper community…, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members – among them the need to need one another.” — Wendell Berry …

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world … Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.” — Michael Pollan …

“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …