A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. —Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer

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People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don’t see them; they don’t see me; we don’t interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation. —Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

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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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It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. —Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady

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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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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. —Roland Barthes, French critic

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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. —Lionel Trilling, American critic

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

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People don’t follow titles, they follow courage. —William Wells Brown, American civil rights 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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. —Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady

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

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