1. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo
3. “He who saves one life saves the world entire.” - Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin, 37a
4. “If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.” - Sun Tzu
5. “We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.” - Will Rogers
6. “Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.” - Chinese Proverb
7. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. “Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?.” - Proverbs 24:11-12
9. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
10. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” - Goethe
11. “An appeaser is a guy who throws his friends to the alligator in hopes that the alligator will eat him last.” - Winston Churchill
12. “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” - Albert Einstein
13. “The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.” - Lloyd Jones
14. “Thou wilt incline Thine ear to vindicate the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may cause terror no more.” - Psalm 10

Recent Additions

“Perhaps we cannot make this a world in which children are no longer tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.” - Albert Camus

“Sometimes we must interfere.
When human lives are endangered,
when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.” - Elie Wiesel

“We cannot solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

“Let all the anti-war protestors of tomorrow join our anti-genocide efforts of today.” - Edward Kim

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one” - Alexander Hamilton

“We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, ‘Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters.’” - Ronald Reagan

“In the Soviet Union, the future is known; it’s the past which is always changing.” - Popular joke among dissidents

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