Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.