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- They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
- Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535), Utopia
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
- 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
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), In a speech at the White House, 1962
- I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918), "Trees" (poem), 1914
- America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
- Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923), Speech in Boston, 1920
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Telegram, 24 May 1946
- How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
- The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
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