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quotes[1] = "If persons define situations as real they are real in their consequences. --William Isaac Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas"

quotes[2] = "By doing away with giving to everyone what it implicitly demands of everyone, the educational system demands of everyone alike that they have what it does not give. --Pierre Bourdieu"

quotes[3] = "If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them.  If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them.  My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.  --Abraham Lincoln"

quotes[4] = "The American people are infected with racism--that is the peril. Paradoxically, they are also infected with democratic ideals--that is the hope.  While doing wrong, they have the potential to do right.  But they do not have a millennium to make changes. --Martin Luther King, Jr., April 1968"

quotes[5] = "The ultimate question for a responsible person to ask is not how they may extricate themself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. --Dietrich Bonhoeffer"

quotes[6] = "Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. --William Morris"

quotes[7] = "The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts--I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.  And for every party opinion there are facts that are extremely inconvenient, for my own opinion no less than for others.  I believe the teacher accomplishes more than a mere intellectual task if they compel their students to accustom themselves to the existence of such facts. I would be so immodest as even to apply the expression 'moral achievement,' though perhaps this may sound too grandiose for something that should go without saying. --Max Weber"

quotes[8] = "Four legs good, two legs bad. --Snowball, as quoted by George Orwell"

quotes[9] = "Only misunderstanding can result when what is real in its consequences is taken to be real as such. --a turn-of-the-century sociologist"

quotes[10] = "Jews appear to have power, and hence are a convenient locus of anger when the pain caused by the social system becomes acute for people on the lower rungs. Because Jews are placed in positions where they can serve as the focus for anger that might otherwise be directed at ruling elites, no matter how much economic security or political influence individual Jews may achieve, they can never be sure that they will not once again become the targets of popular attack should the society in which they live enter periods of severe economic strain or political conflict. --Michael Lerner"

quotes[11] = "It would be totally senseless to try to describe here the pain that was inflicted on me.  Was it 'like a red-hot iron in my shoulders' and was another 'like a dull wooden stake had been driven into the back of my head'? One comparison would only stand for the other, and in the end we would be hoaxed by turn on the hopeless merry-go-round of figurative speech. The pain was what it was. Beyond that there is nothing to say. Qualities of feeling are as incomparable as they are indescribable. . . . If someone wanted to impart their physical pain, they would be forced to inflict it and thereby become a torturer themself. -- Jean Amery"

quotes[12] = "Because history is the record of what we have done, it tells us what we are capable of doing; because it is the record of where we have been, it tells us where we may yet go. But before we know what we are capable of doing and where we are capable of going, we must look at that record honestly, deceiving neither ourselves nor others. It is hard to look at what we once were and did, but it is more dangerous not to. --Sigmund Diamond"

quotes[13] = "Now suppose one day they really find a formula at the root of all our wishes and whims that will tell us what they depend on, what laws they are subject to, how they develop, what they are aiming at in such and such a case, and so on and so forth-that is, a real mathematical equation? Well, chances are that man will then cease to feel desire. Almost surely. What joy will he get out of functioning according to a timetable? Furthermore, he'll change from a man into an organ stop or something like that, for what is a man without will, wishes, and desires, if not an organ stop? --Fyodor Dostoyevsky"

quotes[14] = "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, the question as to how far differences of race--which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair--will hereafter be made the basis to denying over half the world the right of sharing to their utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization. -- W.E.B. Du Bois"

quotes[15] = "If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert.  With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and the flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. . . . Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.  In this light, no boundary exists between the sacred and the profane.  I must confess it takes me a bit longer to do the dishes, but I live fully in every moment, and I am happy. -- Thich Nhat Hanh"

quotes[16] = "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people.  I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.  I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.  It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve.  But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. -- Nelson Mandela, April 1964"

quotes[17] = "Finally, it is relevant to point out that we all have models--some are more explicit than others; we all use principles of description--again some are more explicit than others; we all set up criteria to enable us both to produce for ourselves, and to read the descriptions of others--again these criteria may vary in their explicitness.  Some of our principles may be quantitative whilst others may be qualitative.  But the problem is fundamentally the same.  In the end whose voice is speaking?  My preference is to be as explicit as possible.  Then at least my voice may be deconstructed. -- Basil Bernstein"

quotes[18] = "The meta-lesson of both relativity and quantum mechanics is that when we deeply probe the fundamental workings of the universe we may come upon aspects that are vastly different from our expectations.  The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. -- Brian Greene, <span class='non-ital'>The Elegant Universe</span>"

quotes[19] = "The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche"

quotes[20] = "'Love is not to be proven or measured,' said Joao Fulgencio. 'It's like Gabriela.  It exists, and that is enough.  The fact that you can't understand or explain something doesn't do away with it.  I know nothing about the stars, but I see them in the heavens; and my ignorance in no way affects either their existence or their beauty.' -- Jorge Amado, in <span class='non-ital'>Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon</span>"  

quotes[21] = "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.  We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.  Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. -- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961"
   
quotes[22] = "We live, as we dream--alone . . . . --Joseph Conrad, <span class='non-ital'>Heart of Darkness</span>"

quotes[23] = "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.  Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. --Caesar in Shakespeare's <span class='non-ital'>Julius Caesar</span>"
   
quotes[24] = "The idea that the capacity to compete on an international scale--whether in markets or in outer space--is indispensable for our very survival is one of those everyday certitudes in which systemic constraints are condensed.  Each one justifies the expansion and intensification of the forces of the others . . ..  Modern Europe has created the spiritual presuppositions and the material foundations for a world in which this mentality has taken the place of reason.  That is the real heart of the critique of reason since Nietzsche. --Jurgen Habermas"

quotes[25] = "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. -- Stephen Bantu Biko"

quotes[26] = "But people change, and any moment could be a turning point.  Friends turn into enemies; the living into the dead; victims into victimizers.  Maybe it's all immanently predictable.  How pathetic that we all want to be unpredictably original.  We all want to be God instead of jellyfish.  The Bartender and I think we're oh-so-clever, but perhaps we are merely players on a stage, destined to act out someone else's script. -- Rosie, in Jane Ransom's <span class='non-ital'>Bye-Bye</span>"

quotes[27] = "It always seemed to me that at its best, academic life is about scholarly debate.  When scholars publish their work, they are inviting others to join with them in furthering understanding.  Books that fully and completely answer a question to everyone's satisfaction have asked too narrow a question; no book of any merit fully puts an important issue to rest. -- Gerald N. Rosenberg"

quotes[28] = "IF I HAD KNOWN IT WAS HARMLESS I WOULD HAVE KILLED IT MYSELF. -- Philip K. Dick in <span class='non-ital'>A Scanner Darkly</span>"

quotes[29] = "The power of the executive to cast a man [person] into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny . . . the judgment of . . . peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. -- Winston Churchill, 1943"

quotes[30] = "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. -- Milan Kundera in <span class='non-ital'>The Book of Laughter and Forgetting</span>"

quotes[31] = "You must not imagine that liberty is something without rule or law. -- Maria Montessori"

quotes[32] = "In the final analysis, if data are invalid it matters little how cheaply we can obtain them. -- Lucy Suchman and Brigitte Jordan"

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