“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” — Plato …

“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.” — Edward Coke …

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” — George Santayana …

“What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith.” — Gary Taubes …

“Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.” – Maria Montessori …

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson …

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley …

“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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“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.” — Angela Davis …

“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.” — Eleanor Roosevelt …