Langston Hughes
Poet, Novelist
"America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!"
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Breaking Silence
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Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
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"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society."
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"Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own."
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"A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies."
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"We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak."
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"It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries."
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"A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just."
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"I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such."
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