“I have often wished myself a beast, or a bird—anything, rather than a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Friends, I owe more tears to this dead man than you shall see me pay.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war, and to end it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“They say that rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.”

― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought that it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: His will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Alone —free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“To fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

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