„I think…. living in such a hard situation when there are terrorists and they slaughter people every night is still hard — is still a threat. So it’s a better idea to speak out for your rights and then die…we will speak out for our rights. This is what we can do, and we tried our best.“

— Malala Yousafzai

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„As a people we claim the right to speak with peculiar emphasis for freedom and for fair treatment of all men without regard to differences of race, fortune, creed or color. We forfeit the right so to speak when we commit or condone such crimes as these of which I speak.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do. That's what I pray to do every day.“
— Barack Obama
„Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.“
— Barack Obama
„Change is hard –- in our own lives, and in the lives of nations. And change is even harder when we carry the heavy weight of history on our shoulders. But today we are making these changes because it is the right thing to do. Today, America chooses to cut loose the shackles of the past so as to reach for a better future –- for the Cuban people, for the American people, for our entire hemisphere, and for the world.“
— Barack Obama