When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady

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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. —William Blake, British poet

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Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. —János Arany, Hungarian writer and poet

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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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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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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. —Barbara Bush, former First Lady

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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. —Salvador Dali, Spanish painter

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. —William Blake, British poet

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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic

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As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. —Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian activist

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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. —Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist

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