Here is a compilation of inspirational and provocative quotes, sayings and proverbs which we've used on our web site and our email newsletters. Maybe you can use them too! We'll be updating this page now and again.

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If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
- Thomas Fuller

Sacrifice is the law of life. It runs through and governs every walk of life. We can do nothing or get nothing without paying a price for it.
- Mahatma Gandhi

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
- Marcus Garvey

People will say with pride: I'm not interested in politics. They might just as well say, I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.
- Martha Gellhorn

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
- Kahlil Gibran

The truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus, by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
- Joseph Goebbels

And you, are you so forgetful of your past, is there no echo in your soul of your poets’ songs, your dreamers’ dreams, your rebels’ calls?
- Emma Goldman

If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution.
- Emma Goldman

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
- Jane Goodall

Against brute force and injustice the people will have the last word. That of victory.
- Che Guevara

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Genuine politics - even politics worthy of the name - the only politics I am willing to devote myself to - is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
- Vaclav Havel

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
- Abbie Hoffman

There is always a way to make a difference. Do we choose to make the difference? That is the issue.
- Djimon Hounsou

To Dr Madhuku, I want to say: Please learn how to pass the baton stick to the next runner if you want the race to be won.
- Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean writer

Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly
- Langston Hughes

Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.
I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.
Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you.
- Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore - and then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
- Langston Hughes

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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
- Italian proverb

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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
- Jesse Jackson

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
- Thomas Jefferson

When the government fears the people, you have liberty; when the people fear the government, you have tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
- Lyndon Johnson

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