We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Taslima Nasrin

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Joan Baez

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Your life is a reflection you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it.

Steve Maraboli

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.

M Scott Peck

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

Earl Warren

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. -Puddleglum in The Silver Chair

C.S. Lewis

Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Giotto di Bondone

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

Tatum O'Neal

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst