The Power of Ideas





"I want my students to question the arrangements of power, authority, wealth, and control. I want them to believe that we little people can make a difference. We can create a new society without prejudice and want but only if we are armed with the knowledge and ideas to do so."
-William Watkins, professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago


"The opposite of goodness is not evil; it is the indifference to evil."
- Elie Wiesel


"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."
- contributed by Daniel Knox, period 8


"If you judge people, you'll have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa


"Each time a [person] stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice [that person] sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
- Robert F. Kennedy


"If grains of sand, snowflakes, and ocean waves are allowed differences, then why not people?"
- Bette Greene (1993, Morning Is a Long Time Coming)