“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
-Author unknown [WP 9/24/19]
“Change is the law of life; those who look only to the past or present, will certainly miss the future.”
– John F. Kennedy
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
-Plato
“Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.”
– John Stuart Mill
“When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who you differ from threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens, but as enemies – to be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated and mastered.”
– Robert Kennedy, at City Club of Cleveland during his 1968 presidential campaign, the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated.
[Thanks to Joel for the last four quotes]