“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …

“Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” — Potter Stewart …

“When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.” — Carol Bellamy …

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.” — Pablo Picasso …

“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.” — Robert Ingersoll …

“It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!” — Anthony de Mello …

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson …

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson …

“Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.” — Saul Alinsky …

“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911 …