No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

- Virginia Satir

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

- Frances Fox Piven

To say "we" and mean "I" is one of the most recondite insults.

- Theodor Adorno

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

- Jane Addams

Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.

- Howard Winters

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

- Pearl S. Buck

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

- Pearl S. Buck

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

- Bertrand Russell

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside—

- Emily Dickinson

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

- Virginia Woolf

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.

- Rumi

He drew a circle that shut me out --
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.

- Edwin Markham