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- Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963
- I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), In a speech at the White House, 1962
- And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
- ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
- Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
- Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
- Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), "Ambassadors", 1903
- Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), "The Master builder", 1892, act 3
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