
“Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.”
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“If my name ever goes down into history, it’ll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.”
Abraham Lincoln, upon signing the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year’s Day 1865
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“Just as nonviolence exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, so must the infection and sickness of poverty be exposed and healed.”
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“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”
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“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”
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“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”
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