Re: Food For Thought

[haolegirl52]

in case anyonehas forgotten...

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."-- George Washington

ignorance = fear
silence = death
ACT UP

defamation of character:
attacking the good name or reputation; slander; libel
Funk &Wagnalls Standard Dictionary

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
Elie Wiesel

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such, I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
Malcolm X

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr, Suess, The Lorax

from linda sw

[Eileen M.]

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

[Marty M]

Peace without justice is not peace.

Heard this at the Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa. I cannot find the person who said it first.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

[jbox]

OK, I'll bite:

" We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." H. L. Mencken

" Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which troubles me most are those that I do understand." Mark Twain

" I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty." Albert Einstein

[Dixon]

"All life is a blur of Republicans and meat."

--Zippy