I find it very inspiring and comforting to read quotes from those who have gone through great periods of struggle, so I put together some quotes in hopes that they will inspire and/or comfort others.

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. - Thomas Jefferson

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper. - Barry Neil Kaufman

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. - Aristotle

Sit down before facts like a child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. - T.H. Huxley

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. - Da Vinci

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. - James Russell Lowell

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. - Martin Luther King Jr.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. - Lucious Seneca

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. - Hugh Mcleod