“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank …

“I ask no favors for my sex…. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.” — Sarah Moore Grimké …

“The Occupy movements are the first large-scale popular response to the growing crisis of the past generation. Maybe they can go beyond what they’ve done. I hope so… And whether that’ll happen is essentially up to us to determine, just as it’s up to us to determine whether, say, Martin Luther King’s dream is to remain in tattered ruins or can in fact be realized.” — Noam Chomsky …

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” — C. S. Lewis …

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …

“The spirit of resistance not just to political power but to the corporations that pull the puppet strings of our politicians, the reoccupation of public space that had been co-opted by the elites, the reassertion of rights that had languished for too long: all of this and more [has] provided an outline for a new politics of protest.” — John Nichols, from Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street …

“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.” — Albert Einstein …

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.” — Marianne Williamson …

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …

” Every movement for progress in America has been met by vehement resistance, by a counter-movement hell-bent on dragging America back to a less fair, less equal, and less free time. America is a better place than we have seemed to be in our recent seasons of delirium. It is time to reaffirm that the moral arc of history bends toward justice. And to remember that the arc is long and that change is not …

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