"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and
love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time
they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."
-- Mohandas Gandhi

"To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
- Abraham Lincoln (speaking directly to /b/)

"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, 
and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." 
--Thomas Paine 

Winston Churchill said - "If you will not fight for the right when you can
easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will
be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to
fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.
There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope
of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

JFK wrote (months before he was allegedly slain by police state henchmen, whom he opposed): “Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.” 

"The price good people pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato

George Bernard Shaw: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
--Dr. Robert H. Schuller

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire

Benjamin Franklin: "If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking."