“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions … but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” ~~ Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Chapter 11
“The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.” ~~ Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.” ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.” ~~ Leo Burnett
“Spoon feeding, in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” ~~ E.M. Forster
“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” ~~ Sojourner Truth
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.” ~~ Joseph Joubert
