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Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. — Will Rogers

Cuba seems to have the same effect on U.S. administrations as the full moon once had on werewolves. — Wayne Smith, former director of the US Interest Section in Cuba

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. — Aldous Huxley

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power. — Stephen Covey

I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy. — David Korten

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. — Muhammad Ali

No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability, or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. — U.N. Convention Against Torture

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. — President Dwight Eisenhower

On Aug. 28, 1963, Rabbi Joachin Prinz came to the microphone to address the March on Washington crowd just before Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. “Bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem,” Prinz said. “The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.” — David Wilkinson