“All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.” — Bernard Berenson …

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you much go to war for this or that reason- that history is a protective armor against being misled.” — Howard Zinn …

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei …

“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel …

“Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.” – Rachel Carson …

“The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.” — William Faulkner …

“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.” — Bertrand Russell …

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance.” — H Jackson Brown …

“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.” Marya Mannes …