June 18, 1942 Paul McCartney "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." June 19, 1623 Blaise Pascal "Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be...

June 16, 1829 Geronimo "I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say." June 16, 1931 John...

June 12, 1802 Harriett Martineau "You better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow." June 12, 1929 Anne Frank "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a...

June 8, 1917 Eric Hobsbawm "Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved." June 8, 1928 Gustavo Gutiérrez "So you say you love the poor? Name...

June 2, 1840 Thomas Hardy "A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible." June 2, 1953 Cornel West "You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion;...

May 31, 1819 Walt Whitman "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."...

May 28, 1759 William Pitt the Younger "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; where law ends, tyranny begins." May 28, 1917 Barry Commoner "If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong...

May 22, 1943 Betty Williams "We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each...

May 18, 1872 Bertrand Russell "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." May 19, 1925 Malcolm X "If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."

May 15, 1856 L. Frank Baum "There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid." May 15, 1935 Utah (Bruce) Phillips "The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have...

May 12, 1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." May 13, 1944 Armistead Maupin "The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their...

May 10, 1955 Rick Steves "Fear is for people who don't get out very much." May 10, 1960 Bono "Idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very...