The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Jane Goodall

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.

Meher Baba

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. 

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. 

Stephen Covey

We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.

Jane Goodall

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. 

Albert Einstein

 

 

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. 

Alexander the Great

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. 

Elie Wiesel

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. 

Mahatma Gandhi

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. 

Karl Marx

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

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

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. 

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. 

George Bernard Shaw

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. 

Edmund Burke

 

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. 

William James

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. 

Abraham Lincoln

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.

Amit Ray

Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.

Jane Goodall

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

Blackfoot warrior and orator

Living is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

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 

Duwamish

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

 

 

 

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. 

George Orwell

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

 

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Jimi Hendrix

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. 

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

 

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. 

Rosa Parks

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

Jack Kerouac

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. 

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. 

Denis Leary

What is past is prologue. 

William Shakespeare 

 

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. 

Elie Wiesel

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. 

Abraham Lincoln

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. 

Rosa Parks

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. 

Plato

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. 

James A. Baldwin

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. 

Haile Selassie

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 

William Shakespeare

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Jane Goodall

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. 

Maya Angelou

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Buddha

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman