It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim. Thomas Paine
For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
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N.K. Jemisin
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)
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Voltaire
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Sharon Salzberg
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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Pearl S. Buck
Christian hope frees us to act hopefully in the world. It enables us to act humbly and patiently, tackling visible injustices in the world around us without needing to be assured that our skill and our effort will somehow rid the world of injustice altogether....
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Craig M. Gay
More Quotes By Thomas Paine
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
