“A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi …

“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.” — Francis Bacon …

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” — Aristotle …

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.” — Mohandas Gandhi …

“War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation; thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes at the end of the twentieth century as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to “feel good” about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.” — Adrienne Rich
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“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.” — John Stuart Mill …

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou …

“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.” — Hannah Arendt …

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do.” — Dorothy Day …