“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.” — Ernst Fischer …

“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.” — Frances Wright …

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold …

“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.” — Carl T. Rowan …

“Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.” — Ben Bagdikian …

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …

“I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt …

“Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.” — Thomas Henry Huxley …

“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” — Stacia Tauscher …

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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