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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
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Personal Development
"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."
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Personal Development
"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."
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Personal Development
"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
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Personal Development
"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
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Personal Development
"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
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Personal Development
"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
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Personal Development
"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
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Personal Development
"The innocent must not suffer."
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"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."
Imagination
"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."
Justice
"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."
Equality
"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."
Poetry
"Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers."
Poetry
"The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy."
Poetry
"Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect."
Being
"The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric."
Joy
"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
Poems
"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."
Violence
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