You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty. -Phil Ochs

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant– / … The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind. -Emily Dickinson

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. -Ann Patchett

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. -Doris Lessing

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. -Robert Louis Stevenson

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. -Oliver Goldsmith

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. -Bill Mauldin

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

Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. -Arthur Miller