“If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach.” - Margaret Cho “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.” - Eleanor Roosevelt “Help thy brother’s boat across, and lo! Thine own has reached the shore.” - Hindu Proverb “Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” – Norman B. Rice “The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something! The millions who are in want will not stand silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy President Franklin D. Roosevelt “Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.” - Helmut Schmidt “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” - Booker T. Washington “Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.” -Oprah Winfrey “Americans are over-reachers; over-reaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.” - George F. Will “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank “If you always give, you will always have.” - Chinese Proverb “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” - Sally Koch “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.” - Mother Teresa General “Justice” Themes “Justice is the right decision, done the right way, for the right reasons.” – Congressman Judge Ted Poe “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I don’t believe we can have justice without caring, or caring without justice. These are inseparable aspects of life and work.” – Justine Wise Polier “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Dr. Martin Luther King “Justice is truth in action.” – Benjamin Disraeli “A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take away from you.” – Ramsey Clark “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel “Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.” – Lucy Stone “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice; we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer “True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.” – Jonathan Sacks “We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.” – Franklin Roosevelt “The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” – Dr. Martin Luther King “It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.” – Seneca “Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.” – Kahlil Gibran For More Information Please contact National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Community Awareness Project Consultant Anne Seymour via email at ; or by telephone at 202.547.1732.