"Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental... The freedom to learn... has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to learn, the right to have examined in our schools not only what we believe, but what we do not believe; not only what our leaders say, but what the leaders of other groups and nations, and the leaders of other centuries have said. We must insist upon this to give our children the fairness of a start which will equip them with such an array of facts and such an attitude toward truth that they can have a real chance to judge what the world is and what its greater minds have thought it might be."  W.E.B. DuBois

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 

"The opposite of reason is not emotion, it is unreason. The opposite of emotion is not reason, it is frigidity on the one hand and sentimentality on the other."

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." Edmund Burk (1729 - 1797) (paraphrased)

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy, 1962

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." John F. Kennedy

"It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future." John F. Kennedy (Undelivered speech-Dallas, 1963)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.

"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love." Martin Luther King Jr.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it." Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Stages of a Struggle:

• "First they ignore you,
• then they laugh at you,
• then they fight you,
• then you win." Mahatma Ghandi

"Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, small minds discuss personalities." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." Confucius

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." Bill Beattie

"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness." Jerome S. Bruner

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