When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew,
therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the
Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not
concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the
industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was
not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant
church — and there was nobody left to be concerned. — Pastor Martin Niemoller, Congressional Record, October 14, 1968, vol. 114, p. 31636. |
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I
can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will
not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do,
I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I
will do. — Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) |
First, they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they
attack you. Then you win. — Mahatma Gandhi |
A ripple here, a ripple there. Now there's something in the air. A wave is building in the sea As we play the game of history. — Jon Roland, Feb. 1998 |
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Treatises on civil action
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. — John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) |
General activist links
Power goes to those who show up in sufficient numbers. — Jon Roland (1998) |
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt (Sorbonne, 1910) |
Also see Jury Reform.
People commonly seek to avoid the burdens of duty, but it is ill service to humanity to relieve them of their responsibilities. — Jon Roland (1997) |
When you small you gotta fix what you can. — Hushpuppy, Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
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