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""The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.""

"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."

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🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."

"I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made."

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🇫🇷Guy Debord

Philosophy

Situationist International

1931–1994

"With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning."

"My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm not running for president."

"I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore"

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🇨🇭Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Law

b. 1947

"We don’t want a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots. We don’t want an international order akin to post-democracy or post-law."

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🇨🇭Helen Keller

Literature

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."

"Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."

"To this day, I'm against the draft. I believe the military is much stronger if it's an all-volunteer organization."

"Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. We have not yet found the right road to conquering ourselves and our environment."

"must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy."

"Americans should challenge policies of our country that are wrong and harm others."

"Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime"

"Rich's letter of refusal for the National Medal for the Arts"

"According to director Lindsay Anderson, one day while filming The Whales of August he said to Lillian Gish, "Miss Gish, you have just given me a perfect close-up." Bette Davis remarked: "She should. She invented 'em."

"The Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation"

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🇺🇸Eugene V. Debs

Politics

labor movement in the United States

1855–1926

"Had Ingersoll and Phillips devoted their lives to the practice of law for pay the divine fire within them would have burned to ashes and they would have died in mediocrity."

"Despite being subjected to killing, arrest, and oppression, Morsy's supporters have held fast to the democratic process and prevented Egypt from descending into civil war."

"Chanting from the heart: Buddhist ceremonies and daily practices"

"Rarely was heard on her lips the phrase, “I cannot”; more frequently were heard the words, “I must."

"People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant."

"Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!"

"Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk."

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

"The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology."

"Transcript of McGovern's acceptance speech at the 1972 Democratic National Convention."

"Cuban doctors arrive in Martinique to fight coronavirus. "The only thing that motivates us is to save lives, that's the most important thing in the eyes of a Cuban doctor.” That’s why they could get the Nobel Prize."

"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."

"The violence of the state, to be justified, must be transubstantiated in its essence into peaceful incantation, yet at the same time, to be effective, it must retain the external accidents of violence."

"A productive mistake is: made in the service of mission and vision; acknowledged as a mistake; learned from; considered valuable; shared for the benefit of all."

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