"Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength."

Dalai Lama - spiritual leader

 

"We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. " Barack Obama - 44th President of the U.S.

 

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”  Nelson Mandela - former President of South Africa, anti-apartheid revolutionary, philanthropist, lawyer

 

"Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light." Jean Giraudoux - French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright

 

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious." Carl Jung - Psychologist and Psychiatrist

 

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln - 16th U.S. President

 

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy." Thomas Paine - English/American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, revolutionary