“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
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“The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.”
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Eugene V. Debs
“It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.”
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Seneca the Younger
Apply reason to difficulties; harsh circumstances can be softened, narrow limits can be widened, and burdensome things can be made to press less severely on those who bear them cleverly.
Seneca, Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist who died on April 12, 65 A.D.
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Elie Wiesel
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”