Quotes

"The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens." --Arthur J. Kropp, former U.S. Surgeon General

"The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different." --Robert Aitken

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices.," -- Henry David Thoreau

"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it." --Chuang-tse

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone they will be forced to deal with pain." --James Baldwin

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority: the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." --Ralph W. Stockman

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom." Merry Browne

"The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moment so comfort and convenience but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Behave towards everyone as if receiving a great guest." --Oriental Proverb

"Enough shovel of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river." --Chinese Proverb

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's important. You have to do the right thing... You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi