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

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

EVERYTHING ELSE - Better Late Than Never - Titus Livius 59 BC - 17 AD

TWAIN, MARK - Denial Ain't Just a River in Egypt - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER-JR. - Do Not Judge People by the Color of Their Skin - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

TWAIN, MARK - Don't Let Schooling Interfere with Your Education - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

RAND, AYN - Fascism & Communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state. - Ayn Rand 1905 - 19

EVERYTHING ELSE - Formerly We Suffered from Crimes; Now We Suffer from Laws - Cornelius Tacitus 56 AD - 120 AD

TWAIN, MARK - Get Your Facts First, Then You Can Distort Them As You Please. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

TWAIN, MARK - Giving Up Smoking is the Easiest Thing in the World. I Know Because I've Done it Thousands of Times. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER-JR. - I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

VOLTAIRE - It is Dangerous to be Right in Matters About Which the Established Authorities are Wrong - Voltaire 1694 - 1778

EVERYTHING ELSE - It is Human Nature to Hate the One Whom You Have Hurt - Cornelius Tacitus 56 AD - 120 AD

TWAIN, MARK - It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

EVERYTHING ELSE - It's Not Who Votes That Counts, It's Who Counts the Votes - Joseph Stalin 1922-1952

KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER-JR. - Judge by Content of Character - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER-JR. - Let No Man Pull You Low Enough To Hate Him

TWAIN, MARK - No Amount of Evidence Will Ever Persuade an Idiot - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910