"We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one."
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890
"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
Ernesto Che Guevara's dying words, 1967
"How can a future spirit be imprisoned in the past? How can an example be incarcerated?"
Ernesto Che Guevara; The Bolivian Diary, 1967
"If it is paradoxical to make a jail out of a school, it is simply futile (as well as inept and criminal), to seek to kill ideas with a rifle."
Ernesto Che Guevara; The Bolivian Diary, 1967
“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz); Speech at Rally in Support of Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964
"I had a forceful spirit. And my spirit is tired now. But it's still forceful."
Kareem Dennis, 2018
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
Rumi, 1207-1273
"And God said 'Love your enemy'
And I obeyed and loved myself"
Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931
“It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
George Orwell, 1948
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Mark Twain, 1835-1910
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all lessons that history has to teach."
Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963
"You've seen my descent. Now watch my rising."
Rumi, 1207-1273
"Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died."