“Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on top of the wall.” — St. Patrick (c.385 – c.431), from his Confessio

“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.” — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1925 – 1968), from his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech