Martin Luther King Jr.

"Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Martin Luther King Jr.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."

- Confucius, philosopher and social activist

Confucius

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."

- Confucius, philosopher and social activist

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Henry Ward Beecher

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

- Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, orator and social reformer

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Marlo Thomas

"I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married."

- Marlo Thomas, actor and social activist

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Marlo Thomas

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning."

- Marlo Thomas, actor and social activist

Martin Luther King Jr.

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

- Confucius, philosopher and social activist

Eleanor Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat and reformer

Gloria Steinem

"Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it."

- Gloria Steinem, feminist activist and author

Henry Ward Beecher

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

- Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, orator and social reformer

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

- Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat and reformer

Martin Luther King Jr.

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic