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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)

• A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

  Jesse Jackson1941–2026

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• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  Clarence Darrow1857–1938

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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