Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they’re fair with you. —Alan Alda, Actor

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

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I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do — that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. —John Burns, British activist

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So I’m in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. —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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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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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. —Alan Alda, Actor

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience. —Stokely Carmichael, leader of the SNCC and the Black Panther Party

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When I became mayor, I had to run as an independent because the Democrats wouldn’t allow us to run as a Democrat back in those days. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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