The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.Angela Davis
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.Horace
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.Theodore Roosevelt
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.Martin Luther King Jr.
The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.Barack Obama
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.Dwight D. Eisenhower
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.Victor Hugo
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.Noam Chomsky