"Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty." - Gailieo Galilei.
"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that, ' as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more then a whine. It has no meaning, no purpose, no reason to be respected as a phrase.
'I'm offended by that.'
Well, so <beep> what?"
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. "
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. "
-Robert Kennedy