Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. ~ Marcus Garvey
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
- Mark Twain
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
"In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
- George Orwell
"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
- Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
"The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.”
- Bryant H. McGill
"The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.”
- Emma Goldman
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
- George Orwell
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
- P. J. O'Rourke
"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel
"The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.”
- Thomas S. Monson
"The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.”
- Alan Redpath
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks ... It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
- Samuel Adams
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
- George Orwell
"In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
- George Orwell
"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.”
- Nikos Kazantzakis
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”
- Ayn Rand
"He who is brave is free.”
- Seneca
"Freedom is never given; it is won.”
- A. Philip Randolph
"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
- Albert Einstein
"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.”
- Brigham Young
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”
- H. L. Mencken
"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.”
- Nikos Kazantzakis
"Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.”
- Idries Shah
"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.”
- Bill Richardson
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”
- H. L. Mencken
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
- Matsuo Basho
"When you know your history, you have a better vision of where you're going. And, when you have that, there's no stopping you.”
- Ron Cephas Jones
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.”
- B. C. Forbes
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
