“Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.”

President John F. Kennedy

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood…I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”

US civil rights leader Marin Luther King

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals”

Mark Twain

“Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

“When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.”

Cesar Chavez

“What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?”

Eugene V. Debs

“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”

Ralph Nader

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”

Archibald MacLeish

“except for the most confirmed standpatter or unswerving cynic, nearly all Americans have some identification with liberalism, whether they know it or not. Just about every educated person I encounter around the world is a liberal. Almost every working journalist, nurse, and flight attendant leans toward liberalism; nearly every teacher, scientist, clergyman, and child-care worker is a liberal. I can't remember the last time I met an illiberal professor of history, my old profession. How could anybody read history and not be a liberal?” -more-

George McGovern

"There is no white America.
There is no black America.
There is no Latino America.
There is no Asian America.
There is only the United States of America."

Barak Obama