“The time of the impossible has presented itself. [The Arab revolutionaries] want something more. For them the slogan is simple: Down with the Present. Long Live the Future. May it be so.” — Vijay Prashad from his book Arab Spring, Libyan Winter …

The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart [in the US]. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.” – Noam Chomsky …

“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.” — Susan B. Anthony …

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home…the factory, farm or office …unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, speaking to the United Nations in 1953

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“I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.” — Sonia Sanchez …

“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.” — A. Philip Randolph quotes …

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.” — Helen Keller …

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …

“For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.” — B. R. Ambedkar …

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” ? Dr. Seuss, The Lorax …