Jackie Robinson

 "I'm not concerned with your liking 

or disliking me. All I ask is that you 

respect me as a human being."

Jackie Robinson

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 "A conservative is a man with two 

perfectly good legs who, however, 

has never learned how to walk forward."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lewis Carroll

 "Always speak the truth, 

think before you speak, 

and write it down afterwards."

Lewis Carroll

Angela Davis

 "What this country needs is 

more unemployed politicians."
Angela Davis

Virginia Woolf

 "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

Virginia Woolf

Edith Wharton

 "If only we'd stop trying to be happy

we'd have a pretty good time."

Edith Wharton

Edouard Manet

 "There are no lines in nature, 

only areas of colour, one against another."
Edouard Manet

David Lynch

 "But even a bad cup of coffee is 

better than no coffee at all."

David Lynch

Wikipedia

"The Wikipedia blackout is over 

— and you have spoken.
More than 162 million people saw our 

message asking if you could imagine a world

without free knowledge.  You said no. 

You shut down Congress’s switchboards. 

You melted their servers. Your voice 

was loud and strong.  Millions of people have spoken

in defense of a free and open Internet."
Wikipedia

John Perry Barlow

 “The Internet treats censorship as 

a malfunction and routes around it.”
John Perry Barlow

Benjamin Franklin

 “Many people die at twenty five and 

aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
Benjamin Franklin

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 "History will have to record that the 

greatest tragedy of this period of 

social transition was not the strident clamor 

of the bad people, but the 

appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Brian Eno

 "I often work by avoidance."
Brian Eno

Maurice Sendak

 "My work has always been considered inappropriate.

But the ones that I love the ones that I think work 

as works of art and books are inappropriate."
Maurice Sendak

Theodore Roosevelt

  "Far better is it to dare mighty things, 

to win glorious triumphs, 

even though checkered by failure...

than to rank with those poor spirits 

who neither enjoy nor suffer much, 

because they live in a gray twilight 

that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

Jello Biafra

 "For every prohibition you create 

you also create an underground."
Jello Biafra

Jean Pierre Blanchard

"...permit me, gentlemen, to advise you 

not to attempt to keep up with me..."

Jean Pierre Blanchard

Alvin Ailey

 "Racism tears down your insides 

so that no matter what you achieve, 

you're not quite up to snuff."
Alvin Ailey

Matt Frewer

"I'm extremely fortunate to be doing what I'm doing. 

I'd do it for free...but don't tell them that."
Matt Frewer

J. R. R. Tolkien

 "It does not do to leave a live dragon 

out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien