Activists & Leaders

“互联网是不可控的。如果互联网不可控，自由就会胜利。就这么简单。”

“The internet is uncontrollable. And if the internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.”

“Интеллектуальная свобода необходима человеческому обществу — свобода получения и распространения информации.”

“Intellectual freedom is essential to human society. Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships.”

“Radical simply means grasping things at the root.”

“The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it.”

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.”

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

“Billige Gnade ist Predigt der Vergebung ohne Buße, ist Taufe ohne Gemeindezucht, ist Abendmahl ohne Sündenbekenntnis. Billige Gnade ist Gnade ohne Nachfolge, Gnade ohne Kreuz.”

“Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross.”

“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause.”

“O mon corps, fais de moi toujours un homme qui interroge !”

“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

“You are never too small to make a difference.”

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“言论自由是人权的基础，是人性的泉源，是真理之母。”

“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.”

“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.”

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected.”

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

“Hemos sido gobernados más por el engaño que por la fuerza, y hemos sido más degradados por el vicio que por la superstición. La esclavitud es la hija de las tinieblas; un pueblo ignorante es un instrumento ciego de su propia destrucción.”

“We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the offspring of darkness; an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction.”

“Ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?”

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

“The power of the powerless lies in the ability to live within the truth.”

“The power of the powerless lies in the ability to live within the truth. When a greengrocer refuses to put a propaganda slogan in his window, he is not merely making a gesture — he is shattering the entire structure of the post-totalitarian system, because that system depends on everyone's complicity in the lie.”

“It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.”