Perhaps the greatest test of love is the way we act in times of need.

Suleika Jaouad

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

B. Smith

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

Lots of people don’t like coping with logic when it dictates hard decisions. That’s a problem with people, not logic.

Cory Doctorow

“Stability and peace are not built with mutual threats, nor with weapons, which sow destruction, pain, and death, but only through a reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue,”

Pope Leo

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

"It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it."
    Lena Horne

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

"...You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise." 

Maya Angelou

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Henry David Thoreau

Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.

Gloria Steinem

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Patrick Henry

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

Nelson Mandela

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

James Baldwin

Let us avoid harsh words and rash judgement, refraining from slander and speaking ill of those who are not present and cannot defend themselves. Let us strive to measure our words and cultivate kindness and respect, at work, on social media, in political debates, and in the media.

Pope Leo on Lent

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

We want more schools and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice, more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; more opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood bright.

Samuel Gompers

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, ..the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! — and listens to their testimony.

James Baldwin

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

Give men shorter hours in which to labor, and you give them more time to study and learn why bread is so scarce while wheat is so plenty.

Terence V. Powderly

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

James Baldwin

"Our hope must move beyond comforting words to real responsibility and structural change to uplift the poor".

Pope Leo

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven’t seen them since.

Gore Vidal

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me … All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
     Jackie Robinson

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

G.K. Chesterton

To this day, the words that come most frequently to my lips are “thank you.” When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

Elie Wiesel