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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. —Germaine Greer, writer, broadcaster, academic, and feminist

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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady

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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that’s becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic

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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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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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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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I didn’t fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. —Germaine Greer, writer, broadcaster, academic, and feminist

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady

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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. —Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist

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