“When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.” –- Bayard Rustin …

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”– Martin Luther King Jr. …

“Nonviolence is the constant awareness of the dignity and the humanity of oneself and others; it seeks truth and justice; it renounces violence both in method and in attitude; it is a courageous acceptance of active love and goodwill as the instrument with which to overcome evil and transform both oneself and to others. It is the willingness to undergo suffering rather than inflict it. It excludes retaliation and flight.” — Wally Nelson
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“We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that’s the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.” — Cornel West …

“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. …

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” — David Brin …

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.” — Victor Hugo …

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” — Albert Einstein …

“The essential ingredient missing from Obama’s campaign of hope and change was the hard work that would be necessary from all of us to convert the former into the latter; not only on his part, but on ours as well.” — Eric Alterman …

“This world’s not going to change unless we’re willing to change ourselves.” -– Rigoberta Menchu Tum …