SOWELL, THOMAS - "If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisi

Plato - "If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." - Plato 428 BC - 348 BC

WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. - A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because its accepted by a majority. - Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915

TWAIN, MARK - A Man Who Carries a Cat by the Tail Learns Something He Can Learn in No Other Way. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK - A Man's Rights Rest in Three Boxes: The Ballot Box, The Jury Box, And the Cartridge Box - Frederick Douglass 1818-1895

MADISON, JAMES - A Popular Government Without Popular Information, or the Means of Acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or Perhaps Both - James Madison 1751-1836

PAINE, THOMAS - Accountable to Nobody

STEVENSON, ADLAI E. - All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions - Adlai Stevenson 1900-1965

TWAIN, MARK - Anger is an Acid That Can Do More Hard to the Vessel In Which it is Stored Than to Anything On Which it is Poured - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

SNOWDEN, EDWARD - Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. - Edward Snowden