You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one’s contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. —Angela Davis, American activist

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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. —Angela Davis, American activist

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Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. —Marian Wright Edelman, American activist

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I’ll admit that President Bush did appoint Condoleezza Rice. He appointed Powell, but that wasn’t enough. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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So I’m in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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When I became mayor, I had to run as an independent because the Democrats wouldn’t allow us to run as a Democrat back in those days. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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When Megdar was killed, I came back from Chicago and couldn’t go inside the airport in Jackson, Mississippi. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. —Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist

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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. —Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist

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