February 4, 1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer "If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction." February 4, 1913 Rosa Parks "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be...

February 3, 1909 Simone Weil "Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand." February...

February 1, 1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin "Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought." February 1, 1972 Leymah Gbowee "Anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many...

January 31, 1915 Thomas Merton "The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another." January 31, 1919 Jackie Robinson "The most luxurious...

January 30, 1909 Saul Alinsky "As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin...

January 29, 1927 Edward Abbey "Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top." January 29, 1939 Germaine Greer "One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

January 28, 1853 José Martí "We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political...

January 25, 1882 Virginia Woolf "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." January 25, 1933 Corazon Aquino "It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a...

January 24, 1670 William Congreve "Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." January 24, 1862 Edith Wharton "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

January 22, 1561 Francis Bacon "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." January 22, 1788 George Gordon, Lord Byron "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who...

January 20, 1930 Buzz Aldrin "If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger." January 20, 1966 Rainn Wilson "Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and...

January 19, 1943 Janis Joplin "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." January 19, 1946 Dolly Parton "Storms make trees take deeper roots."

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."