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“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.”
― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook would be fundamentally changed. The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.”
― Michael Collins

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Justice is truth in action.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
― Albert Einstein

“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“All history is biography.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
― Thomas Jefferson