“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
– Muhammad Ali
“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small..”
– Azim Premji
“Those who say your dreams are ridiculous have given up on theirs.”
– Unknown
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
– Thomas Carlyle
“As the work is done for the employer, and therefore ultimately for the public, it is a bitter injustice that it should be the wage-worker himself and his wife and children who bear the whole penalty.”
– President Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.
– Theodore Roosevelt, 1908
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
“Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of their right to join the union of their choice.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit.”
– Andrew Jackson
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.”
– Robert F. Kennedy
“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”
– Walter Cronkite
“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
– Karl Marx
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, NOT on fighting the old, but on BUILDING the NEW.”
– Socrates
“Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
– Robin Williams
“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”
– Woodrow Wilson
“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”
– John Stuart Mill
“The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.”
– Woodrow Wilson
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health [care] is the most shocking and inhuman[e]…”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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