Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

- Coretta Scott King

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

- Marie Curie

The final word is love.

- Dorothy Day

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe – the open sesame to every soul.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"When one thought ends, right before the next thought begins, there is a tiny gap called 'now.' Over time we learn to expand that gap."

– Spring Washam

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

-Marcus Aurelius

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has ― or ever will have ― something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.

- Fred Rogers

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. Every truth we see is ours to give the world, not to keep for ourselves alone, for in so doing we cheat humanity out of their rights and check our own development.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

- Rosa Parks

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”

- Shannon L. Adler

The biggest indictment of the way we teach American history is that people can look at Charlottesville and say "This is not who we are."

- Jelani Cobb

We have seen advances in every aspect of our lives — except our humanity.

- Luma Mufleh

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

- Maya Angelou

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin

It is not enough to simply wish that love and compassion grow within us. We need a sustained effort to cultivate such positive qualities.

- Dalai Lama

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.

- John Steinbeck

Sometimes we have to do the work, even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible

- Angela Davis

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family. That we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

- Desmond Tutu

We’re all human aren’t we? Every human is worth the same, and worth saving.

- J.K. Rowling

Hatred can rot away at a person’s intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel mortal struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity and hinder a nation’s progress toward freedom and democracy

- Liu Xiaobo

The struggle of humanity against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

- Milan Kundera

Yes, it is time to examine the past with courage, to assign responsibility where it is due in a review of the long history of humanity. Women have contributed to that history as much as men did and, more often than not, they did so in much more difficult conditions.

- John Paul II

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

- Arthur Ashe

I a invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me … When they approach me they see my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

- Ralph Ellison

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

- Sri Chinmoy

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

- Louise Erdrich