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QUOTATIONS

“In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people’s representatives.” – U S Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter

“Our constitution… neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal under the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.” – U. S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Reformers who are always compromising have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“… a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” – John F. Kennedy

“To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man’s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the people, the whole people, who formed the Union.” – Susan B. Anthony

“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

“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.” – Carl Schurz

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.” – Aristotle

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Please call me by my true name so that I can wake up.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!” – Sir Walter Scott

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” – Aristotle

“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. – Robert Ingersoll

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” – Robert Louis Stevenson