"Dear brother bishops, to defend life we must not fear hostility or unpopularity, and we must refuse any compromise or ambiguity which might conform us to the world's way of thinking," — Pope Benedict XVI

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." — Samuel Johnson (English Poet, Critic and Writer, 1709-1784) and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." — Archbishop Desmond Tutu

"We must work together with those who understand that the consequences or circumstances a young woman may face with an unplanned pregnancy need not include the cruel and vicious killing of her child." — Day Gardner, President of the National Black Pro-Life Union

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" — Edmund Burke (British Statesman, 1729-1797)

"The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety." — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

"You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: 'How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?' The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963.

"First they came for the socialist, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionist, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me." — Reverend Martin Niemoller, leader of the Confessional Church, an anti-Nazi group that condemned the regime's racial policies and anti-Christian teachings.

"It is a poverty to decide that A Child Must Die so that you may live as you wish." — Mother Teresa of Calcutt

"Blessed is the match that is consumed kinding a flame." — Hannah Senesh (1921-1944)

"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"True Heroism is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." — Ron DiCianni

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." — Frederick Douglass

"In an unjust society, the only place for a just man is prison." — Thoreau

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." — Nelson Mandela

"The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government." — Thomas Jefferson to the Citizens of Washington County, Maryland, March 3, 1809

"An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelty." — Pope Benedict XVI

"We now record fetal heartbeats at 14 days post-conception. We record fetal brainwaves at 39 days post-conception. And I don't expect you to answer this, but I do expect you to pay attention to it as you contemplate these big issues. We have this schizophrenic rule of the law where we have defined death as the absence of those, but we refuse to define life as the presence of those." — U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), speaking to Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor at confirmation hearing, July 15, 2009, Page 24 of 115.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing — direct murder by the mother herself. And we read in the Scripture, for God says very clearly: Even if a mother could forget her child — I will not forget you — I have carved you in the palm of my hand. Even if a mother could forget something impossible — but even if she could forget — I will not forget you. And today the greatest means — the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion." — Mother Teresa, 1979 Nobel Prize Speech

"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go From Here?, 1967.