History and Justice

“It’s not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better. It is not enough to be very good if you have the ability to be great.”
— Alberta Lee Cox

“If we had no winter; the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
— Anne Bradstreet

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say,’I used everything You gave me.’”
— Erma Bombeck

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity. ”
— Nadezhda Mandelstam

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
— Erica Jong

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death”
— Anne Frank

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank