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“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Why do we want to kill all the broken people?”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens’ Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”;”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Do not accept an evil you can change.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Now, let me ask you this. Who killed the girls? The dragon? Or their father?”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable; I am an original. I'm not falling behind or running late. I'm not standing still: I am lying in wait.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“If you stand for nothing, Burr, what'll you fall for?”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda