“The major media contribute to the misinformation propagated by governments, not only in the United States. They commonly adopt the general perspective of systems of power, both state and private. The war on Terrorism is no exception.” — Noam Chomsky …

“It’s a journalist’s job to be a witness to history. We’re not there to worry about ourselves. We’re there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.” — Robert Fisk …

“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. …

“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” — Aristotle …

“People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.” — Sheila McKechnie …

“Why am I compelled to write? … Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.” — Gloria Anzaldúa …

“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.” — A. Philip Randolph …

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …

“Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice.” — Bertrand Russell …

“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 …