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Abraham Joshua Heschel"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."
"Racism is man's gravest threat to man--the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." |
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Emily Dickinson"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul--and sings the tunes without the words--and never stops at all"
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Abraham Lincoln"I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred." |
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Thomas Paine"Time makes more converts than reason."
"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon." "it is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance." |
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George Santayana"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography." |
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Martin Luther King, Jr."Injustice any where is a threat to justice everywhere."
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality." |
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Michel de Montaigne"Two things I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial ideas and subterranean conduct."
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Upton Sinclair, Jr."It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
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Frederick Douglass"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
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