“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth.”

– Liu Xaiobo, Chinese dissident
and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

“We are grownups. And we will decide.”

– Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian-born writer and muslim feminist,
on the Arab spring

“Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”

– Elie Wiesel, Nobel Piece Prize Laureate, Writer, Holocaust survivor

“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”

– Immanuel Kant

“The genocide was brutal, criminal and disgusting and continued for 100 days under the eyes of the international community.”

– Roméo Dallaire, Force Commander of United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda, during the genocide in 1993

“Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.”

– Thomas Jefferson

“Free societies... are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”

– Salman Rushdie

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”

– Thomas Jefferson

“To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.”

– Mahatma Gandhi