Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. —Paul Gaugin, artist

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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. —Paul Gaugin, French artist

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Conscience is a man’s compass. —Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

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If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. —Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? —Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. —Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright

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As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war. —Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president

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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. —Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer

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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt. —Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian

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Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. —Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. —Jane Addams

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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. —Saul Alinsky, American community organizer

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