1117 – “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.”

-H G Wells

866 – “[Racialism] is a struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and their own experience. It is a struggle for the right to live. During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

–Nelson Mandela

859 – “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”

–Albert Dietrich [See Source Notes for further information]

837 – “We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”

–Gayle Forman

190 – “I promise that I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing.”

–Jack Kerouac [Attributed]