"What unites us is more important than what divides us."
- Cardinal Bernardin

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Gandhi

"It's not where you are now, but where you are going.  If you are not exposed to diversity education, you will be UNDER-EDUCATED for now and the future."
- James Boyer, Kansas State University

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"People don't get along
because they fear each other.
People fear each other
because they don't know each other.
They don't know each other
because they have not properly communicated with each other."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"We need not strive for a color blind - color neutral - society, but a society that neutralizes the bigotry, biases, and value judgments based on color."
- Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

"In (Nazi) Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.  Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionists.  Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was Protestant.  Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up."
- Attributed to Rev. Martin Niemoeller, a Protestant minister who once preached anti-Semitic sermons and later reversed himself, opposed Hitler and was sent to a death camp.

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
-Lao Tzu

"The purpose of freedom is to create it for others."
- Bernard Malamud

"If not you, then who?  If not now, when?"
-Questions asked during "The Struggle Continues" exhibit at the Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH