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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.

- Chinese Proverb

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

- Heinz Pagels

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

- Marian Anderson

It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.

- Thomas Jefferson

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

- J. K. Galbraith

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

- Winston Churchill

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

- African Proverb

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

- General Omar Bradley