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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: compassion, justice, mercy
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    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: honor, justice, personal-responsibility, responsibility
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    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: injustice
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: equity, justice, laws
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: activism, healing, inspirational, justice, sacrifice
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “You'll get what's coming to you some day, Brekker."
    "I will," said Kaz, "if there's any justice in the world. And we all know how likely that is.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: kaz-brekker
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    Voltaire
    “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
    ― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes
    tags: condemnation, guilt, innocence, judgment, justice, mercy, reasonable-doubt, verdict
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    Robert F. Kennedy
    “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
    ― Robert F. Kennedy
    tags: incrementalism, influence, justice, kindness, make-a-difference, oppression
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    Theodore Parker
    “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
    ― Theodore Parker
    tags: inspirational, justice, mlk
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    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
    ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    tags: acquiescence, activism, free-speech, justice, principles, protest
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: crime, justice, morality, redemption
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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    John Lennon
    “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: activism, beatles, materialism, peace, society, television
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: activism, service
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success
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    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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    Elie Wiesel
    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, advocacy, protest
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    Barack Obama
    “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: activism, commitment, politics
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: activism
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    Kurt Cobain
    “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: activism, dissent, inspirational, protest, truth-telling
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    Michel Foucault
    “Where there is power, there is resistance.”
    ― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
    tags: activism, leftism, power, resistance
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
    ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    tags: activism, justice, public-defense
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    Aristotle
    “It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
    ― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics
    tags: activism, civil-disobedience, good, patriotism, value, virtue
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    Albert Einstein
    “If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: acquiescence, activism, consent, dissent, duty, protest, remaining-silent
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “People would rather believe than know.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
    tags: activism, animals, environment, inspirational
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    Marcus Garvey
    “The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”
    ― Marcus Garvey
    tags: activism, belief, integrity, social-justice
    299 likes



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