Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. (Martin Luther…

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. (Mahatma Gandhi)

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. (Nelson Mandela)

When we recognize the virtues, the talents, the beauty of Mother Earth something is born in us, some kind of connection. Love is born. (Thich Naht Hanh)

It does not interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.…

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us realize we are family; that we are made for togetherness, for goodness and for compassion. (Desmond Tutu)

If you have people who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have people who deal likewise with their fellow human beings.…

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same. (Gloria Steinem)

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. (The Lorax)

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. (Elie Wiesel)