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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
― Horace Mann

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“If I can help somebody as I pass along...
If I can cheer somebody with a word or song...
Then my living shall not be in vain.”
― Alma B. Androzzo

“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
― Thomas Macaulay

“Above all things
If kindness is your king
Then heaven will be yours before you reach your end”
― Dave Matthews Band - Squirm

“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”
― Rick Warren

“Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life.”
― THE REV. DR. CARTER HEYWARD Professor of theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge Mass

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

“It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol