RFK

"The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society."
- Robert F. Kennedy

Need for More Than Small Acts

"Small acts of humanity amid the chaos of inhumanity provide
hope. But small acts are insufficient."

- Paul Rusesabagina, Rwandan and former hotel manager whose
actions inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda.

Emma on Patriotism

"Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superioirity upon all others."

--Emma Goldman

The Time Is Now

"The time is always right to do what is right" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Encroaching On Our Rights

"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations: but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism. If we go over the whole history of ancient and modern republics, we shall find their destruction to have generally resulted from those causes. If we consider the peculiar situation of the United States, and what are the sources of that diversity of sentiment which pervades its inhabitants, we shall find great danger to fear, that the same causes may terminate here, in the same fatal effects, which they produced in those republics. This danger ought to be wisely guarded against."
- James Madison, 1788

RFK On What We Can Do

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; 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 this generation."
- Robert F. Kennedy