1. Proverb - “He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.”

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2. Lawrence Summers - “I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. [Chief economist of the World Bank,explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.]”

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3. Paul Robeson - “In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.”

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4. Julia Mavimbela - “I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.”

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5. Beryl Markham - “Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home'. It is all these things but one thing — it is never dull.”

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6. Miriam Makeba - “People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals ... We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.”

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7. Abraham Lincoln - “In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln did not hesitate to dispel the notion that he was a champion of racial equality: 'I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.'”

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8. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.'”

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9. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values — that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”

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10. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

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11. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideas hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.”

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12. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”

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13. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”

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14. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”

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15. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.”

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16. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”

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17. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

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18. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

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19. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

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20. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

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21. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

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22. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

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23. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “The old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind.”

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24. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.”

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25. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it.”

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