Send us your favorite sayings found on the road less travelled.
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Frederick Douglass
"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong." --
Alice Walker
The most commom way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
The Grand Inquisitor, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881 - The Brothers Karamazov
In the end they will lay their freedoms at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'
[What we are working to avoid, of course]
Barry Goldwater (written by Karl Hess)
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Etienne de la Boetie "The Politics of Obedience" (1553)
Resolve to serve no more and you are once freed: I do not ask that you place your hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.
General Peter Pace
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
National Press Club, February 17, 2006
It is the absolute responsibility of everybody in uniform to disobey an order that is either illegal or immoral.
Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Samuel Adams
it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds
George Orwell
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Richard Cobden
Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
Albert Einstein
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Lao Tzu
Simplicity blossoms when coercion dies.
Ramsey Clark
The very quest for freedom involves finding ways of preventing war.
Guatemalan Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi Conedera
To open ourselves to the truth and to bring ourselves face to face with our personal and collective reality is not an option that can be accepted or rejected. It is an undeniable requirement of all people and all societies that seek to humanize themselves and to be free.
Jim Rockford
General, I'm a civilian. I outrank you.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Self reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.
Mahatma Gandhi
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
— I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Albert Einstein
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Edward Everett Hale (son of Nathan Hale)
I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
What I can do, I should do.
And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.
