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Martin Luther King Jr.
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Wendy Mass
"Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
"All the time.""
Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)
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Ashleigh Brilliant
"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right."
Ashleigh Brilliant
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Terry Pratchett
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. "
Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)
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Chris Heimerdinger
"There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey."
Chris Heimerdinger (Tennis Shoes: Gadiantons and the Silver Sword)
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George Eliot
"Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it."
George Eliot
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"Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?"
Shirley Hughes
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"Elizabeth Swann: 'There will come a time when you have a chance to do the right thing.'
Jack Sparrow: 'I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.'"
— Pirates of the Carribean
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Diana Wynne Jones
"Nobody gets praised for the right reasons."
Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
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Wendelin Van Draanen
"...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

- Grandpa Chet"
Wendelin Van Draanen (Flipped)
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Christopher Buckley
"That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong."
Christopher Buckley
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"Oh when you feel your heart's guarded
And you see the break's started
And when the clouds have all departed
You'll be right here with me

And when your tears are dry from crying
And when the world has turned silent
And when the clouds have all Departed
You will be right here with me."
— Brandy
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Jeanne DuPrau
"'When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.' --People of sparks--"
Jeanne DuPrau
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Leo Tolstoy
"It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong."
Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
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Aldo Leopold
"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
Aldo Leopold
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Henry David Thoreau
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see."
Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)
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"The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world."
Terry Tempest Williams (Leap)
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"Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy."
John L. Lund (How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities)
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Alexander Pope
"If I am right, Thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O, teach my heart
To find that better way!"
Alexander Pope
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Anne Frank
"Parents can only give [children] good advice or put them on their right paths, but the final forming of a person lies in their own hands."
Anne Frank
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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T.H. White
"There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them. "
T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
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"Commander Harken: Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of.
Malcolm Reynolds: May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one. ('Firefly')
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— Tim Minear
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""karina, i love you too much""
— layla murillo
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Tallulah Bankhead
"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
Tallulah Bankhead
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William Ewart Gladstone
"Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong."
William Ewart Gladstone
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Abraham Lincoln
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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Abraham Lincoln
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"All life is is a big advertisment"
— Allie McMahon
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"Two Wrongs, Don't Make A Right.

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— Uknown
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Marcus Aurelius
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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Marcus Aurelius
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"even a broken watch is right twice a day"
— hayden scott behner
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"what is right? which accept ur mind and what is wrong? which doesn't accept ur mind."
— Aamir Khan
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Ayn Rand
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. "
Ayn Rand
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Martin Luther King Jr.
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Phillip C. McGraw
"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
Phillip C. McGraw
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"In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences."
Josh Rushing (Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World)
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"There's a hard life for every silver spoon.
There's a touch of gray for every shade of blue.
That's the way I see life.
If there was nothing wrong...
Then there'd be nothing right."
— Shinedown ("What a Shame")
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"You can try to break the silence, just keep making love with violence."
— Right Away Great Captain
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