If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Theresa

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. – Author Unknown

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams, we are the movers and the shakers. – O’Shaughnessy

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! – Patrick Henry

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love. – Henry David Thoreau

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. – Emily Dickinson

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. – Emma Goldman

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. – Charles Houston

You are a human being.  You have rights inherent in that reality.  You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law. – Lyn Beth Neylon

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. – Robert Ingersoll

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. – Horace Greeley

Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal.  The universal aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not just for the dominant few. – Carlos P. Romulo

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Self-respect knows no considerations. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. – John Adams

I feel morally and intellectually obliged to simply conceded that the death penalty experiment has failed….  From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. – Former US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. – Charles Evan Hughes

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of it’s troubles, it empties today of it’s stength. – unknown

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. – Abraham Lincoln

I’ve run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian. – Wilma Mankiller

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always claimed Americans didn’t want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one. – Will Rogers

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. – E. F. Schumacher

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America. – Jimmy Carter