“Justice is what love looks like in public.” -Cornel West
“What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”
-Mother Teresa
“When I despair, I remember, that all through history, the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it always.” -Mohatma Gandhi
“Great social forces are the mere accumulation of individual actions. Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.”
-Jeffery Sachs, The End of Poverty
“Our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope…For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.” -Alice Walker, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear.
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln
