January 18, 1689 Montesquieu "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. January 18, 1971 Binyavanga Wainaina "All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit."  

January 16, 1932 Dian Fossey "When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future." January 16, 1933 Susan Sontag "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the...

January 15, 1662 Moliere "It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." January 15, 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do...

January 14, 1875 Albert Schweitzer "The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." January 14, 1892 Martin Niemoller "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they...

January 12, 1835 Brooke Foss Westcott "What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love." January 12, 1920 James L. Farmer, Jr. "Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear."

January 11, 1907 Abraham Joshua Heschel "Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." January 11, 1955 Max Lucado "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

January 10, 1834 Lord Acton "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." January 10, 1864 George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and...

January 9, 1859 Carrie Chapman Catt "No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion." January 9, 1908 Simone de Beauvoir "It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why...

January 8, 1601 Baltasar Gracian "Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it." January 8, 1885 A.J. Muste "There is no way to peace; peace is the way."

January 6, 1882 Sam Rayburn "Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one." January 6, 1883 Kahlil Gibran "When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."

January 5, 1931 Alvin Ailey "From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this...

January 4, 1896 Everett Dirksen "There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come." January 4, 1943 Doris Kearns Goodwin "The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."