"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela

"It always seems impossible until its done."
Nelson Mandela

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
Nelson Mandela

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."
Martin Luther King Jr.

“Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.”
Naomi Klein

“The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.”
Naomi Klein

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
Mahatma Gandhi

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi

"I think it would be a good idea."
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western Civilization.

"I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself."
Sitting Bull

"The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it."
Sitting Bull

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
Andre Gide

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."
Noam Chomsky

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."
Noam Chomsky

“Why not have your nuclear bombs in your briefcase? All of these policies that America upholds, nuclear weapons, privatization, all of these things are going to mutate and metamorphosis into these dangerous things.”
Arundhati Roy

“Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World”
Arundhati Roy

"Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world."
Tommy Douglas

“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”
David Suzuki

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit”
David Suzuki

"The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative."
Vandana Shiva

“Societies and economies can be destroyed by bombs. Societies can also be destroyed by locking every aspect of life like provision of food and water through an economic war.”
Vandana Shiva

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living”
Mary "Mother" Jones

“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”
Mary "Mother" Jones

“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.”
Mary "Mother" Jones

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
George Orwell

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
Rosa Luxemburg

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
Dalai Lama

“Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.”
Dalai Lama

“No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action”
Emma Goldman

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”
Emma Goldman

“If I can't dance - I don't want to be part of your revolution”
Emma Goldman

"There has never been a people less suited for world dominion than the Americans of the twentieth century and twenty-first century."
Gore Vidal

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain

"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
Albert Einstein

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance."
Albert Einstein

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein

"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses."
Utah Phillips

"You've got to own what you do, rather than work and let somebody else make the profit off of it. And you've got to fight in this culture to hang on to your own soul, to hang on to your own creativity."
Utah Phillips

"Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it."
Lenny Bruce

"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place."
Margaret Mead

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
Muhammad Ali

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Ali

"I'm gonna fight for the prestige, not for me. But to uplift my little brothers who are sleeping on concrete floors today in America."
Muhammad Ali

"The difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable."
Mark Twain

"Art is anything you can get away with."
Marshall McLuhan

"Every generation needs a new revolution."
Thomas Jefferson














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