Martin Luther King, Jr.
- On the "White Moderate"
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Masque of Anarchy
Rise, like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew, which in sleep had fallen on you; Ye are many - they are few!
Bernie Sanders
- The Struggle
Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- I Welcome Their Hatred
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace... They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred.
