QUOTES
COURAGE
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history
is shaped. 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.
"Few
men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their
colleagues, the wrath of society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery
in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital, quality for
those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."
ECOLOGY
"We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done
at all levels—local, State and Federal—in ending the pollution of our waters."
"Listen,
the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so
much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If
you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and
antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being
patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic
thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably."
ECONOMY
The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes,
and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our
doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health
of our families, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play.
FREEDOM
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal
and abiding practice of any western society.
LIVING
A LIFE OF COMPASSION
There are those who look at things the way they are,
and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
PERSEVERANCE
"Only
those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
POVERTY
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
TOLERANCE
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity
which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
TRUTH
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is
the potential for greatness.
"Each
time a person stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes
out against injustice, he or she 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."
WE
CAN CREATE A BETTER WORLD
"Few will have the greatness to bend history
itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the
total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
