“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely.” –- Franklin Delanore Roosevelt …

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” — Desmond Tutu
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“It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.” — Mark Twain …

“Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.” – David Korten …

“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” — Clarence Darrow …

“Hope remains only in the most difficult task of all; to reconsider everything from the ground up, so as to shape a living society inside a dying society.” — Albert Camus …

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.” –- Robert F Kennedy …

“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.” — Sydney J Harris …

“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 …

“If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi …