"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." -- Ben Franklin

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.... Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can'thave both."

-- Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr