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

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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. —Abigail Adams, former First Lady

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation —Salvador Dali, Spanish painter

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. —William Blake, British poet

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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic

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… with all his noble qualities … with all these exalted powers … Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. —Charles Darwin, British naturalist

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As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn’t have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn’t keep up with their promise. Education didn’t prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. —Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. —Guy Debord, French activist

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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. —Betty Ford, former First Lady

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

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There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on “Friends” is. —Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show

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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. —Lionel Trilling, American critic

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