Quotes
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July by Frederick Douglass
Below is an excerpt from Frederick Douglass’ speech What to the Slave is the Fourth of July. For teachers, we provide links to incorporate this speech into your curriculum, as…
Read MoreAlice Walker on Identity
“Please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow…
Read MoreHarvey Milk on Human Rights
“It takes no compromise to give people their rights…it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to…
Read MoreDr. King on Riots and Protest
I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we…
Read MoreEli Wiesel on Protest
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel
Read MoreNelson Mandela on Human Rights
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” – Nelson Mandela
Read MoreEleanor Roosevelt on Human Rights
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the…
Read MoreFred Rogers on Helping Children
“Anyone who does anything to help a child in [their] life is a hero to me.” – Fred Rogers
Read MoreHannah Arendt on Education
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable.
Read MoreSimon Wiesenthal: Holocaust Survivor and Nazi Hunter
About Simon Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal was born in Buczacz, Ukraine, in 1908. After surviving various labor camps and a forced march, Wiesenthal was liberated from Mathausen on May 5, 1945.…
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