"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the
violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken
clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my
own government."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From "Beyond Vietnam"
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
they are free."
--Johann W. Von Goethe
"Liberty has never come from the government.... The history
of liberty is the history of resistance...a history of the limitation
of governmental power, not the increase of it."
--Woodrow Wilson
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to
do so, too."
--Voltaire
“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow
of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh,
to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf
lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running
of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge
of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”
-- Rachel Carson
"Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first
principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest
person to fool."
-- Richard Feynman
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves
can free our minds!”
-- Bob Marley
“To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable
that must be thought.”
-- Tom Robbins
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying
for, and nothing worth killing for.”
-- Tom Robbins