The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

[N]o republic can maintain itself in strength [without] general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom.

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
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We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent. It took no initiative to inform anyone — I took no initiative to inform anyone. … I felt that I had to tell the truth. I could not keep silent.

This land is your land, this land is my land.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Artificial distinctions between persons must be wiped out of the law. Legal discrimination … is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.

[W]e are assembled to protest against a form of government existing without the consent of the governed – to declare our right to be free as man is free.
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The right is ours. Have it, we must. Use it, we will. The pens, the tongues, the fortunes, the indomitable wills of many women are already pledged to secure this right.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.