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"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
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"Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one."
"Being tough isn't in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used to being strong, and never tried to understand those who were weak. I was too used to being fortunate, and didn't try to understand those less fortunate. Too used to being healthy, and didn't try to understand the pain of those who weren't. Whenever I saw a person in trouble, somebody paralyzed by events, I decided it was entirely his fault""he just wasn't trying hard enough. People who complained were just plain lazy. My outlook on life was unshakable, and practical, but lacked any human warmth. And not a single person around me pointed this out.' - Miu."
"I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia."
"Every human being on earth is the same and our very being is crying out for same need."
"You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people."
"Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."
"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish."
"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."
"Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman."
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