“The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.”

— William Gibson

“[T]he arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

— Martin Luther King Jr, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

“I haven’t lost faith, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

— Martin Luther King Jr, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

— Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“Aim at something great; aim at things which are difficult; and there is no great thing which is not difficult. Do not pare down your undertaking to what you can hope to see successful in the next few years, or in the years of your own life. Fear not the reproach of Quixotism and impracticability, or to be pointed at as the knight-errants of an idea. After you have well weighed what you undertake, if you see your way clearly, and are convinced that you are right, go forward, even though you [d]o it at the risk of being torn to pieces by the very men through whose changed hearts your purpose will one day be accomplished. Fight on with all your strength against whatever odds, and with however small a band of supporters. If you are right, the time will come when that small band will swell into a multitude: you will at least lay the foundations of something memorable, and you may [–] though you ought not to need or expect so great a reward – be spared to see that work completed which, when you began it, you only hoped it might be given to you to help forward a few stages on its way.”

— John Stuart Mill

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

— Frederick Douglass, The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies (August 3, 1857)

Growing movements:
“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Mead

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

— commonly misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi