"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Geogia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood...that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heart of injustice, swealtering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice...that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judeged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We have allowed death to change its name from Souther rope to Northern dope. Too many black youths have been victimized by pushing dope into their veins instead of hope into their brains." -Jesse Jackson(your only cool if you can rhyme like that!!)
"Some people have a wonderful way of looking at things. Like the ones who hire one of use to babysit so they can go to a Ku Klux Klan meeting." -Dick Gregory
"When George Jessel took Lena Horne to a famous resturant, the doorman asked, 'Who made your reservations?' Jessel replied, 'Abraham Lincoln.'" -Earl Wilson
"If you could just be a nigger one Saturday night, you wouldn't never want to be a white man again for as long as you live." -William Faulkner
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." -Booker T. Washington
"To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white." -e.e. cummings
"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportuinity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact." -Lyndon B. Johnson
"We are all citizens of one world, we are all one blood. To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity." -John Comenuis
"We are all descendants of Adam and we are all products of racial miscegenation." -Lester B. Pearson
"I believe in white supremacy until the balcks are educated to a point of responsibility." -John Wayne
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." -Abrahman Lincoln
"The Americans ought to be ashamed of themselves for letting their medals be won by Negroes." -Adolf Hitler
"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true." -Polish Proverb
"I never knew a girl who was ruined by a bad book." -Jimmy Walker
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." -Claud Adrien Helvetus
"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifile is a false opinion, and if we were sure, stifiling it would be an evil still." -John Stuart Mill
"The sooner we all learn to make a distinction between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be...Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself." -Gransville Hicks
"If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free." -FDR
"I am going to introduce a resolution to have the postmaster General stop reading dirty books and deliver the mail." -Gale McGee
"A man walking at night...sees a light in the window and says 'A mother praying for the safe return of her boy.' A second man sees the light and says, 'Oh boy, hanky-panky going on up there!' The second man is a censor." -Goodman Ace
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." -Oscar Wilde
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." -George Bernard Shaw
"Censorhip, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there." -Clare Boothe Luce
"In Flordia, Henry Balch, columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, hundrered that a children's book telling about the marriage of a white and a black rabbit was a plot for the intergrating desegreationist, and hounded the volume the shelved of the public library." -Jacob K. Javits
"I see no objection in principle to censorship of the mass entertainment of the young." -Walter Lippmann
"I had to censor everything my sons watched...even the Mary Tyler Moore show I heard the word damn!" -Mary Lou Bax
"You have a right to burnbooks or destory books if you can prove they can do harm." -Professor Thomas Devine
"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor." -Justice William D. Douglas
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberites." -John Milton
"Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship." -Kenneth Tyan
"No memeber of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true." -Samuel Johnson
"We are going to monitor every minute of your broadcast news, and if this kind of bias continues...you just might find yourself having a little trouble getting some of your licenses renewed." -Rank Shakespeare
"The ultimate censorship is the flick of a dial." -Tom Smothers
"There is nothing permanent except change." -Heraclitus
"Just because every;thing is different doesn't mean anything has changed." -Irene Peter
"The more the change the more it is the same thing." -Alphonse Karr
"I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand them better." -Governor Jerry Brown
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older...to protest against change, particularly change for the better." -John Steinbeck
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, howerever, is to change it." -Karl Marx
"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change." -Mignon McLaughlin
"Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has it's enemies." -Robert F. Kennedy
"Things do change. The only question is that since things are detoriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?" -Issac Asimov
"What we need is a flexible plan for an everchanging world." -Governor Jerry Brown
"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-seix dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm." -Bill Vaughan
"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college." -Bill Vauhan
"Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening." -Franklin P. Jones
"I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unitelligible nobody understands me." -Milton Mayer
"The ancient sage who concocted the Maxim, 'know thyself' might have added, 'Don't tell anyone.'" -H.F. Henrichs
"The marvels of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication which is not communication at all." -Milton Mayer
"The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is; to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate." -Otto Kleppner
"Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them." -Leo Rosten
"It is a luxury to be understood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To work through an interpreter is like hacking one's way through a forest with a feather." -James Evans
"'Out of sight, out of mind,' when translated into Russian[by computer], then back again into English, became 'invisible maniac.'" -Arthur Calder-Marshall
"Be obscure clearly." -E.B. White
"Through I'm already but clever, /I could talk like that forever." -W.S. Gilbert
"You'll never really know what I mean and I'll never know exactly what you mean." -Mike Nichols
"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to." -Hansell B. Duckett
"To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time." -John W. Roper
"The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't say much." -Germain G. Glidden
"Communication is something so special and difficult that we can never put it in simple words." -T.S. Matthews
"To say what you think will certainly damage you in society; but a free tongue is worth more than a thousand invitations." Logan Pearsall Smith
"Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic." -Mohandas Gandhi
"Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you." -Dr. Paul Williamson, father of a Kent State student
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead trouble makers." -Mignon McLaughlin
"The race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity." -Carl Ven Doren
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." -Oscar Wilde
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion." -James Russell Lowell
"The only completely consistent people are the dead." -Aldous Huxley
"Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish." -William Allen White
"The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one." -Edward Noyes Westcott
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." -Woody Allen
"If you don't go to other men's funerals they won't go to yours." -Clarence Day
"My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama." -Fred Allen
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." -Joseph Stalin
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." -George Bernard Shaw
"Once you accept your own death all of a sudden you are free to live. You no longer care about your reputation…you no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically - to promote a case you believe in." -Saul Alinsky
"She made a ravishing corpse." -Ronald Firbank
"In the long run we are all dead." -John Maynard Keynes
"There is no constitutional right to choose to die." -Chief Justice Joseph Weintrauls, New Jersey Supreme Court
"When I am dead, my dearest,/Sing no sad songs for me." -Christina Rossetti
"Death tugs at my ear and says: 'Live, I am coming.'" -Oliver Wendell Holmes