“Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”— Fannie Lou Hamer
“The one thing you can't be is a hypocrite. You can be a murderer, you can be a thief, but you can't be a hypocrite.”— Betty Rollin
“We can't be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”— Jimmy Carter
“The international community often suffers from a selective memory when it comes to Palestine.”— Afif Safieh
“Sir, how pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind... you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren.”— Benjamin Banneker
“He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.”— Saint Basil the Great
“It is a strange affair, that we should be talking of peace, when we are every day hearing of your people encroaching upon our lands.”— Joseph Brant
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.”— Herman Melville
“To be continually indulging in sin, and to be expecting the divine favour, is the quintessence of absurdity.”— Adam Clarke
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”— Paulo Coelho