Great quotes that apply to our times in so many ways

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860)

'First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.'
--Mahatma Gandhi

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.  -- Elsa Wheeler Wilcox  There is a principle which is proof against all information, which is proof against all arguments, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance; that principle is contempt, prior to investigation. --Herbert Spencer   New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. --John Locke, 1690, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding