Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Will Not Appreciate Your Neutrality

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.  ~ Archibald MacLeish

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.  ~ William Faulkner

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.  ~ Leonardo da Vinci

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.  ~ Benjamin Franklin

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.  ~ Desmond Tutu

Quotes about dissent, life

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