“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 …

“[W]e can…take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.” — David Korten …

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” — Victor Hugo …

“The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson …

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.” — Oscar Wilde …

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein …

“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.” — Robin Morgan …

“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” — Robert F. Kennedy …

“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” — George Orwell …

“When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.” — Abbie Hoffman …