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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust": Samuel Johnson
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“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” Sally Kempton
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“In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble.” Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962
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“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775
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“I’m convinced that if we are to get on the right side for the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people; the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.” Martin Luther King Jr.
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“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.” Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), French economist, statesman, and author, The Law, 1850
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“If you had only known the man you were trying to kill, you would have risked your life to save his.” Harry Pope, WW2, Pacific USS LSM 41, 1944 - Occupied Japan, 1950
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“Write on my gravestone: ‘Infidel, Traitor.’—infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.” Wendell Phillips
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Live so the Preacher Won't Have to Lie At Your Funeral
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 Irish Cleric, Essayest, Author, Satarist
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"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to suscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe; he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."~Thomas Paine "The Age of Reason" 1793