"Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities."
 -- Bernie Sanders

"Education is what separates a girl who is trapped in a cycle of poverty, fear, and violence from one with a chance at a better future."
 -- Malala Yousafzai

"[Religious fundamentalism] is still big business in developing nations, where higher education is lacking and hence the church can still rely on its classic, fear-based rulebook to induce dread and lure in new adherents."
 -- Mark Morford

"In the U.S., black children aren’t afforded the same level of innocence or childhood freedom as white children."
 -- Emma Niles

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
 -- Bertrand Russell

"If there's something wrong, speak up!"
 -- Pete Seeger

"Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!"
 -- Dolores Huerta

"You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people."
 -- Willie Nelson

"Every drop in the ocean counts."
 -- Yoko Ono

"How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination."
 -- Barbra Streisand

"You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong."
 -- Michael Moore

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
 -- Ansel Adams

"We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity."
 -- George Takei

"The worst terrorist campaign in the world by far is the one that's being orchestrated in Washington. That's the global assassination campaign. There's never been a terrorist campaign of that scale... The drone campaign – that's exactly what it is."
 -- Noam Chomsky

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom."
 -- Clarence Darrow

"I admit I am a New Dealer, and if [the New Deal] takes money from the few who have controlled the country and gives it back to the average man, I am going to Washington to help the President work for the people of South Carolina and the country."
 -- James F. Byrnes

"This is what a rigged economic system looks like. At a time when millions of American workers have seen declines in their incomes and are working longer hours for lower wages, the wealth of the billionaire class is soaring in a way that few can imagine."
 -- Bernie Sanders

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
 -- Maya Angelou

"By taking reasonable religious-liberty claims and then pushing and twisting them into a rationale for discrimination, opponents of gay marriage have picked a fight that will weaken religious-liberty arguments overall."
 -- E.J. Dionne Jr.

"Less than 1% of our population is fighting our country's wars, so the promises we make to our soldiers must be kept."
 -- Rachel Maddow

"In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?"
 -- Al Gore

"So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics."
 -- Tracy Chapman

"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted."
 -- Eric Idle

"The Supreme Court doesn't give a rat's patootie about you and me."
-- Thom Hartmann

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
-- Derek Bok

"We can have a democracy or we can have huge wealth in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both."
-- Louis Brandeis

"Newsflash: Money is not free speech, it's paid speech."
 -- Ben Cohen

"If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom."
 -- Bayard Rustin

"Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it."
 -- Andrew Young

"Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean."
 -- Bob Marley

"The most important thing to understand about the problems with the police force in Ferguson, Mo., is that they're not unique to Ferguson."
 -- Ruth Marcus

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
 -- Theoder Seuss Geisel

"Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere."
 -- Harry Belafonte

"Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth."
 -- Paul Krugman

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
 -- Victor Hugo

"I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment."
 -- Angelina Grimke

"Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us."
 -- Yoko Ono

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
 -- Galileo Galilei

"For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal."
 -- Carl Bernstein

"Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage."
 -- Henry Rollins

"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
 -- Florynce Kennedy

"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did."
 -- Jimmy Durante

"There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get."
 -- John Grisham

"I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment."
 -- Mike Farrell

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."
 -- Rosa Parks

"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled."
 -- Elizabeth Blackwell

"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me."
 -- Langston Hughes

"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."
 -- Oprah Winfrey

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other."
 -- Angela Davis

"Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving."
 -- Alicia Keys

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
 -- Pink

"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."
-- Angela Davis

"Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot are fools, and those who dare not are slaves."
 -- Lord Byron

"Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida."
 -- Eric Holder

"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
 -- Morgan Freeman

"We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it."
 -- Michael Moore

"By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well."
 -- Eleanor Marx

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
 -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others."
 -- Julian Bond

"Lies, sanctions, and cruise missiles have never created a free and just society."
 -- Zack de la Rocha

"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."
 -- Jim Hightower

"It's appalling how many climate change deniers there are in this world that are paid to make sure that the Koch brothers can still sell all the stuff to us. And I often wonder, don't the Koch brothers have children? Don't they have grandchildren? Don't they know what they're doing in this quest for more money? They're already one of the richest families in the world. How much more do you need?"
-- Graham Nash

"This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate."
 -- Simone de Beauvoir

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
 -- Stephen Hawking

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a disastrous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment, and the foundations of American democracy."
-- Bernie Sanders

"Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere."
 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The death penalty legitimizes the ultimate act of vengeance in the name of the state, violates fundamental human rights, fuels a mistaken belief by some that justice is being served, and demeans those who strive to preserve human life and dignity."
 -- Mario Cuomo

"Since every record surely contains something offensive to someone, sticker them all. Make this as meaningless as the bar code."
 -- Michael Stipe

"The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source."
 -- Lucretia Coffin Mott

"A woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society."
 -- Martha Carey Thomas

"I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat."
 -- Lily Tomlin

"I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship."
 -- Patti Smith

"When non-military pressure on a government is considered necessary, economic sanctions should be focused on travel, foreign bank accounts and other special privileges of government officials who make decisions, not on destroying the economy that determines the living conditions of oppressed people."
 -- Jimmy Carter

"Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected."
 -- Benazir Bhutto

"As our troops continue to transition back home - back to our businesses, our schools, our congregations, and our communities - it's up to all of us to serve them as well as they have served us."
 -- Michelle Obama

"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."
 -- George Carlin

"President Obama's decision to normalize relations with Cuba is a decision to recognize reality. For 50 years, the United States has pursued a policy that has failed. The embargo hurt the Cuban people it claimed to help and bolstered the regime that it intended to undermine. The effort to isolate Cuba has been increasingly isolating the United States both in the hemisphere and across the world. And as the president concluded, 'I do not believe we can keep doing the same thing for over five decades and expect a different result.' To believe that would be, as Albert Einstein taught us, the very definition of insanity."
 -- Katrina vanden Heuvel

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
 -- Alice Walker

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
 -- Che Guevara

"People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you."
 -- Samuel L. Jackson

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
 -- Henry Peter Brougham

"The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion."
 -- Stephen Biko

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
 -- Margaret Mead

"What matters is not whether torture produces more information or less. What matters is that torture is manifestly immoral - and clearly illegal under U.S. and international law."
 -- Eugene Robinson

"The 'debate' over torture is almost as grotesque as torture itself. There can be no legitimate debate about the intentional infliction of pain upon captive and defenseless human beings."
 -- Eugene Robinson

"We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does."
 -- Jamie Foxx

"Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
 -- James Freeman Clarke

"I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service."
 -- John Kerry

"I believe human rights are everyone's concern - no matter where you live."
-- John Legend

"WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor."
 -- Noam Chomsky

"Being leftwing for me means fighting for the dignity of the people."
-- Costa-Gavras

"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."
 -- Rex Stout

"Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
 -- Shirley Chisholm

"If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them."
 -- Don Cheadle

"We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other."
 -- Naomi Klein

"People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man."
 -- John F. Kennedy Jr.

"No one changes the world who isn't obsessed."
-- Billie Jean King

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
 -- Robert F. Kennedy

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
 -- Jodie Foster

"We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here."
 -- Margaret Atwood