“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
— Hippolyte Taine, 19th-century French critic and humanist often cited by animal-welfare advocates for his admiring cats for their independence, intelligence, and dignity.
#AnimalRights #Caturday

“It’s time to flip this system up and burn it to the ground
Tired of kings and crowns, time the people wear the crown
Power to the masses, rise from the ashes
We are the storm they fear — relentless and savage.”
— Common, freestyle verse (2008), a modern call to revolutionize #NoKings

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…”
— Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776), universal rights, the people’s right to overthrow unjust government.
#NoKings #EchoesOfCourage

“Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”
— John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams (1777), urging future generations to defend liberty as fiercely as it was won.
#Freedom #NoKings #Revolution #EchoesOfCourage

“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Enlightenment philosopher whose radical vision of equality inspired the French Revolution, warning that unchecked inequality breeds revolt.
#Revolution #Justice #Equality #EchoesOfCourage #NoKings

“Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Killing in the name of…
Now you do what they told ya.”
— Rage Against the Machine, Killing in the Name, exposing systemic racism, state violence, refusing unjust authority.
#CivilRights #Resistance #Justice #EchoesOfCourage #NoKings

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
— O’Brien, Part 3, Chapter 3

A brutal image of totalitarian permanence — violence as the essence of absolute power.

#NoKings #CivilRights #Resistance #Justice #EchoesOfCourage

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
— Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel laureate, urging moral courage and clarity in the face of oppression.
#HumanRights #Justice #NeverAgain #EchoesOfCourage #NoKings

I’m on a mission
Reclaim my right
To my position.”
— Dolly Parton, 9 to 5, a working-class rallying cry for dignity, fairness, and systemic change, reminding us that protest often starts in everyday struggle.
#WorkersRights #Equality #Justice #EchoesOfCourage

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
— George Orwell, author of 1984, on why free speech must include unpopular truths.
#FreeSpeech #Democracy #Truth #EchoesOfCourage

“None of us are free until all of us are free.”
— Fannie Lou Hamer, civil-rights organizer who faced jail and violence fighting voter suppression, urging collective liberation.
#CivilRights #Freedom #Justice #EchoesOfCourage

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the UN committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, calling us to defend rights in everyday life.
#HumanRights #Freedom #Dignity #EchoesOfCourage

“Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.”
— Janusz Korczak, who chose to die with the orphans he protected during the Holocaust, urging us to see children as full human beings.
#ChildrensRights #HumanRights #Dignity #EchoesOfCourage

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
— Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India’s independence, reminding us that how we treat animals reflects our deepest values.
#AnimalRights #Justice #Compassion #EchoesOfCourage