“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” — John Lennon …

“Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.” — Pope Francis
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“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate, they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you …

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“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” ? Mahatma Gandhi …

“This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. .. I urge every American — to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.” —- Lyndon B. Johnson …

“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.” — Salvador Dali …

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” — Hippocrates …

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” — Mahatma Gandhi …

“You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.” — Grace Lee Boggs …