Some of my favorite aphorisms

DO JUSTICE

Learn from the World Community

Cherish the Natural Order

Nurture People

Nonconform freely

Dora Janzen Longacre, Living More with Less, 1980.

It is important that

students bring a certain

ragamuffin barefoot

irreverence to their studies;

they are not here to

worship what is known,

but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man, 1975

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 unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics

and I didn't speak up –

because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me –

and by that time no one

was left to speak up.

Pastor Martin Niemoeller (Nazi victim)

I believe there will ultimately be a clash between the

oppressed and those who do the oppressing.

I believe that there will be a clash between those

who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone

and those who want to continue the system of exploitation.

I believe that there will be that kind of clash,

but I don't think it will be based on the colour of the skin.

Malcolm X