Know where you stand and stand there

- Jack Allen

Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever

- Mahatma Gandhi

Do not go where the path may lead
Go instead where there is not path
And leave a trail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no happiness if the things in which we believe are different from the things that we do

- Thomas Jefferson

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a genius... and a lot of courage.. to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

To know and yet not to do is in fact not to know

- Wang Yang-ming

The most violent element in society is ignorance

- Emma Goldman

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds

- Siddhartha Buddha

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty

- Winston Churchill

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?
And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
If not me, then who: if not now, then when?

- Rabbi Hillel

Pessimism of the intellect. Optimism of the will.

- Gramsci, the Italian author of Prison Notebooks

Be ashamed to die until you have achieved at least one victory for humanity

- Horace Mann

To do is to be

- Socrates

To be is to do

- William Shakespeare

To Do be do, da do be do

- Frank Sinatra

Be the change you want to see in the world

- Gandhi

A good intention clothes itself with power

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public

- Martin Luther King

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice

- Abraham Lincoln

Charity begins at home and justice begins next door

- Charles Dickens

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

- Clarence Darrow

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees

- Dolores Ibarruri

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive

- Earl Warren

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

- Thomas Merton

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe

- Frederick Douglass

The history of the world is the world's court of justice

- Friedrich von Schiller

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander

- Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world

- Jimmy Carter

The time is always right to do what is right

- Martin Luther King Jr

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking

- Buddhist Saying

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice

- Confucius

Action is the antidote to despair

- Joan Baez

All know the way; few actually walk it

- Bodhidharma

Want what you have, do what you can, be who you are

- Rev. Forrest Church, UU Minister

For the Love of the World (Gender exclusive)

For the love of a tree, she went out on a limb.
For the love of the sea she rocked the boat.
For the love of the earth, she dug deeper.
For the love of community, she mended fences.
For the love of the stars, she let her light shine.
For the love of spirit, she nurtured her soul.
For the love of a good time, she sewed the seeds of happiness.
For the love of the Goddess, she drew down the moon.
For the love of nature, she made compost.
For the love of a good meal, she gave thanks.
For the love of family, she reconciled differences.
For the love of creativity, she entertained new possibilities.
For the love her enemies, she suspended judgement.
And the world was richer for her.

- Charlotte Tall Mountain

Those who remain silent are understood to consent (qui tacet consentire videtur)

- Ancient Latin

Ignorance serves injustice
Silence aids abuse
Action will save us all

- Bruce MacPherson

Act locally, think globally

- David Bower (?)

Live simply so that others may simply live

- Mahatma Gandhi

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

- Martin Luther King Jr

Safe without works is dead

- Westwood Member