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I do not intend to offer these statements in defense of any one position or to inspire any person to action. Do not expect a single continuous view as you read through these quotations as they represent varying viewpoints, some of which may be at odds. I use this page to realize that others have overcome problems similar in scope to those animal advocates face. These people have survived and become stronger and more whole from the experience. Also included are statements concerning tactics and ideology which, considering their semi-related nature, could appeal to others. Stay Strong!
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(25 Quotations)
- James William Fulbright - "We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless."
- James William Fulbright - "The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute."
- Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi - "Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth."
- Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi - "When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people."
- Barry Goldwater - "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue."
- Phillip P. Hallie - "Institutional cruelty does everything it can to conceal the fact that it is destroying its victims, and in doing this it keeps its spectators from feeling disgust and from being confused by the paradox of trying to justify the unjustifiable, of trying to praise the smashing of the weak" (author of Cruelty).
- Phillip P. Hallie - "If you do not see the victims of cruelty and can explain cruelty away and live with the destruction comfortably, you are adrift . . ." (author of Cruelty).
- John Hay - "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
- Fredrich August von Hayek - "The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs."
- Lillian Hellman - "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
- Abbie Hoffman - "Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."
- Karen Horney - "Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression."
- Gerald W. Johnson - "We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men."
- Erica Jong - "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
- Carl Gustav Jung - "Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
- John F. Kennedy - "Those that make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
- Robert F. Kennedy - "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, 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 a generation."
- Martin Luther King Jr. - "And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right."
- Martin Luther King Jr. - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King Jr. - "The non-violent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources and strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality."
- Martin Luther King Jr. - "I became convinced that non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."
- Martin Luther King Jr. - "The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kinds of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
- Martin Luther King Jr. - "The true measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King Jr. - "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Abraham Lincoln - "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
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Posted/Updated: 1/17/05
