Last updated Thursday 17 June 2004 08:34 PM

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants ... and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.

- Mohandas Gandhi

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others... he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert F. Kennedy

 

ANOTHER OPEN LETTER

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

- Peter F. Drucker

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

- Grayson Kirk

With malice toward none and with charity for all, let us overthrow the soft prejudice of low expectations.

- George W. Bush

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

- Benjamin Franklin

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

- Emma Goldman

Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.

- Mark Twain

And the day came, when the risk to remain tight in bud became more painful than the risk to bloom.

- Anaïs Nin

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

- Albert Einstein

Segregation is the way in which society tells a group of human beings that they are inferior to other groups of human beings in that society.

- Testimony of: Kenneth Clarke, Brown V. Board of Education, 1956.

The most insidious exercise of power is to prevent people from having grievances by shaping their perceptions, cognition and preferences in such a way that they accept their role in the existing order of things, either because they can see or imagine no alternative to it, or because they see it as natural and unchangeable.

- Stephen S. Lukes, 1974