[Mb-civic] Quotes for the New Year

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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."-
Gerorge Orwell

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never 
will."    Frederick Douglass

"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." -
Arabic Proverb

"The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in
times of moral crisis"- Edmund Burke

"When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion." African Proverb

"Minds are like parachutes...they work best when open." - Anonymous

"I really can't believe that something like this (Israel's brutal
occupation of Palestine) can happen in the world without a bigger outcry
about it." --Rachel Corrie, 21 year old, February 27, 2003, 17 days 
before she was killed by an Israeli military bulldozer driver, who has not 
been charged with her killing. In another letter she suggested that all 
people of conscience drop everything to make the atrocities ends

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he 
could do only a little." (Edmund Burke, political thinker, 1729-97)

"Our laws and institutions must go hand in hand with development of 
the human mind" Thomas Jefferson

"Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate.  Like clocks
they must be occasionally cleaned and wound up and set to true time" 
Henry Ward Beecher, Life thoughts

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their
thoughts" Locke, Human Understanding

"Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear; your favors, nor your 
hate"  Macbeth


"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people 
who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes 
decide everything." Josef Stalin


"Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in 
another decade."  Constance Baker Motley

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical
Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be
dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. 
War is the  parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and 
armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the 
many under the domination of the few." James Madison

"What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether
the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the
holy name of liberty or democracy?" Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own
government."   Martin Luther King Jr., April 4th 1967, exactly one year
before he was assassinated

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to 
do nothing." Edmund Burke

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the
greatest of things without it."-Carl Jung

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared 
to what lies within us." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side
of the oppressor." Archbishop Desmond Tutu

"You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments that
stand out are the moments when you have done things for others." Henry
Drummond

Success
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
    and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
    and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better,
    whether by a healthy child,
    a garden patch
    or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier
   because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

AND:

Success
"He has achieved success who has lived well,
    laughed often and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of pure women,
    the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it,
    whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty
    or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others
    and given them the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory is a benediction."

Bessie A. Stanley (b.1879) in Notes and Queries July 1976

"For love is surrender ...and to bleed willingly and joyfully."
Kkalil Gibran, The prophet, 1923.

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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
   ---   George Orwell


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