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“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
― Stephen Colbert

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri