I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race ... those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

-- John Stuart Mill

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

-- John Dewey

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

-- Karl Popper

The public sphere is a social phenomenon just as elementary as action, the actor, the group, or the collective; but it eludes the conventional sociological concepts.

-- Jürgen Habermas

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 to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

-- Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

-- Nelson Mandela