Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000)

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Books from Alibris: Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975)

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Books from Alibris: Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Books from Alibris: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Books from Alibris: Pope John Paul II

Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972)

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Books from Alibris: Lester Bowles Pearson

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-)

Why is it that in this courtroom I am facing a white magistrate, confronted by a white prosecutor, escorted by white orderlies? Can anybody honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced? Why is it that no African in the history of this country has ever had the honor of being tried by his own kind, by his own flesh and blood?...I am a black man in a white man's court. This should not be.

Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud... We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation. We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discrimination. Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another... The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Books from Alibris: Nelson Mandela

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

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.

Books from Alibris: Martin Luther King, Jr.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Books from Alibris: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Books from Alibris: Adolf Hitler

Che Guevara (1928-1967)

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

Books from Alibris: Che Guevara