As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.

But I was not wrong ... to hope that exposing secrets that five presidents had withheld and the lies they told might have benefits for our democracy that were worthy of the risks. Wouldn't you go to jail to help end the war?

This is what we did. How did it happen? How could we?

Dorthea Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression. Inspire yourself to act with this desktop.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt was an American human rights activist, diplomat and powerful First Lady. Honor her with a place on your desktop.

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which an honest police officer can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers. We create an atmosphere in which the honest officer fears the dishonest officer, and not the other way around.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became an abolitionist, statesman and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history. Celebrate the civil rights advocate with this wallpaper.

Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.Helen Keller, both blind and deaf, became a leading activist for social equality and helped found the ACLU in 1920. Capture this remarkable woman on your desktop.

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Henry David Thoreau was a noted American author and philosopher who is most famous for Walden, his essay on civil disobedience, and his call for the preservation of the wilderness. Download this literary legend.

The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.

Howard Zinn is one of the most respected icons of the libertarian left in the United States. Show which side you sit with Zinn on your desktop.

I'd rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said.

As a journalist, anti-lynching crusader, and women's rights advocate, Ida B. Wells worked to overcome injustices throughout her life. Pay tribute to the activist with this wallpaper.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

As a widely regarded writer and essayist, James Baldwin's pride in his culture and social honesty are reflected in his works and through this wallpaper.

...Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experience of other people.

As a founder of the Hull House, American Civil Liberties Union, and the NAACP, Jane Addams was one of the women that led the fight for social reform in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Show your support for the Nobel Prize winner with this wallpaper.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

As a beloved writer, humorist, and social critic, Mark Twain's satiric wit has left an indelible mark on those who know his work. Leave a lasting impression on your desktop too with this wallpaper.

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Celebrate the man behind the voice of a movement with this wallpaper featuring the Nobel Prize winner.

Goodbye, boys; I'm under arrest. I may have to go to jail. I may not see you for a long time. Keep up the fight! Don't surrender!...

As a labor leader and organizer, Mother Jones advanced social and political reform through her tireless efforts to abolish child labor and organize the United Mine Workers. Capture her tenacity on your desktop with this wallpaper.

If I thought going to war would bring freedom and equality to twenty-two million of my people, they wouldn't have to draft me. I'd join tomorrow. But I either have to obey the laws of the land or the laws of Allah. I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. We've been in jail for four hundred years.

Pay tribute to the man who gave new meaning to the word "fighter" with this Muhammad Ali wallpaper.

Consciousness and conscience are burdens imposed upon us by the American experiment. They are the American's agony, but when he tries to live up to their stern demands they become his justification.

As an American scholar and author, Ralph Ellison won acclaim for his depiction of an anonymous black youth in the novel, Invisible Man. Download the distinguished literary giant with this wallpaper.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. A deep democracy... holds up for future generations the principle that the pursuit of justice is the condition for the pursuit of happiness.

An activist who fights for consumer rights issues and a presidential candidate, Ralph Nader has proven that one person can make a difference. Show your support for the Public Citizen founder with this wallpaper.

The gross national product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America except whether we are proud to be Americans.

An attorney general, senator, and presidential nominee, Robert F. Kennedy's life was tragically cut short. Pay tribute to his legacy with this wallpaper.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks' played a key role in the Supreme Court's decision to make segregation on public transportation illegal. As a civil rights leader and desktop companion, Rosa Parks' fight for racial justice continues to inspire.

Now I hears talkin' about de Constitution and de rights of man. I comes up and I takes hold of dis Constitution. It looks mighty big, and I feels for my rights, but der aint any dare. Den I says, God, what ails dis Constitution? He says to me, 'Sojourner, dere is a little weasel in it.'

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It is perhaps this fear of no longer being needed in a world of needless things that most clearly spells out the unnaturalness, the surreality of much that is called work today.

Studs Terkel won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for his book The Good War, about World War II. Now you can award him a spot on your desktop with this wallpaper.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist who helped lead the effort to grant women the right to vote. Show your support for the social and political reformer with this wallpaper.

...so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellowmen, that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous...

W.E.B. Du Bois is one of the most notable political activists in American history. Liberate your desktop with this wallpaper.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone who asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown.

An American poet and humanist, Walt Whitman's honesty and literary liscense changed the way many people viewed the world and themselves. Celebrate his life and work with this portrait.