“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.” — Abbie Hoffman …

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley …

“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.” — Tacitus …

“We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” — Howard Zinn
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“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living” — Rudolf Steiner …

“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” — Anne Lamott …

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” — Jim Morrison …

“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.” — Sonia Johnson …

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” — Kahlil Gibran …

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle, 1855 …