Some of my favorite quotes

If your not taking a risk in life, your just taking up space!
-H. Rifkin

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Einstein

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." -- Martin Luther King,

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
-MLK,. jr

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
-MLK.Jr.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
MLK.Jr.

Ignorance and political apathy are the two gretaest threats to democracy
-H. Rifkin

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always. - Ghandi

You enable an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees! ~ Gandhi

"What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic." -- Martin Luther King Jr."

Why is that, those with "Simple Minds" who often lack Compassion, try to find Simple narrow answers that usually don't address the Complex questions?
-H. Rifkin

Through time people who lacked vision, feared change, and were mired in ignorance tried to block progress and enlightenment, but fortunately those with courage, vision, patience and sted-fastness, prevailed for the general benefit of humanity.
-H. Rifkin

You cannot experience love and fear at the same time! May every step you take be one of forgiveness!
-Attitudinal Healing

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
- Tolstoy

"An eye for an eye" leaves the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Ghandi

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice eveywhere.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man invented god, not the other way around.
-Carl Reiner

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
~Edgar Allan Poe