It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. – Carl T. Rowan
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten
Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them… he cried, “Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?” God said, “I did do something. I made you.” – Author Unknown
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. – Fiona MacLeod
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes. – Timothy Virkkala
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Ghandi
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. – Nelson DeMille
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. – Juvenal
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong…. There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. – Alexander Bickel
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. – Barry Goldwater
Leadership is action, not position. – Donald H. McGannon
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. – Sydney Smith
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. – Author Unknown
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. – Norman B. Rice
A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle. – Author Unknown
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau
My life is my message. – Mahatma Ghandi
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. – Betty Reese
