“Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple. That’s creativity.” — Charles Mingus …

“Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.” — Oscar Wilde …

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …

“The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use – of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.” — Robert Kennedy …

“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.” — Octavio Paz …

“The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.” — Henry Brooks Adams. …

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.” — Groucho Marx …

“The history of America has been largely created by the deeds of its working people and their organizations. Nor has this contribution been confined to raising wages and bettering working conditions; it has been fundamental to almost every effort to extend and strengthen our democracy.” — William Cahn …

“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.” — Rabindranath Tagore …

“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.” — Edgar J Mohn …