“Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below. ” — Roger Baldwin
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“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” — Abraham Lincoln; “Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …

“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.” — George Orwell …

“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.” — George Orwell …

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” — Henry Ford
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“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.” — Helen Keller …

“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.” — Albert Einstein
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“There is a real risk that strong states with developed economies will succumb to a politics of xenophobia, racism, police repression, surveillance, and militarism and thus transform themselves into fortress societies while the rest of the world slips into collapse. By that course, developed economies would turn into neofascist islands of relative stability in a sea of chaos. But a world in climatological collapse – marked by hunger, disease, criminality, fanaticism, and violent social breakdown …

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“In history books, injustice is always so easily recognizable, social struggles are buffed to a Hollywood sheen so that the characters are either pure evil and the necessary response is equally straightforward. But at the time? At the time it’s not always that easy to see.” — Will Potter …