We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
--Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
--Gandhi, the Moral Basis of Vegetarianism

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of her (or his) own conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.
--Norman Cousins

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear.
--George Orwell (author)

"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation." Robert F Kennedy

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." Samuel Adams

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790 Dublin

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel." Patrick Henry

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." Aristotle

"If something makes you cry; you have to do something about it. That's the difference between politics and guilt. I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone." William Jefferson Clinton

"When bad men combine, the good must associate, lest they fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptuous struggle." Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men [and women] to do nothing" --Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

The problem with the gene pool is, there is no lifeguard.

Knowing is not enough, you must also act.

"If the people will lead, the leaders will follow." David Suzuki


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