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    “The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”
    ― Turkish Proverbs
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    Bryant McGill
    “We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
    tags: abuse-survivors, betrayal, betrayal-trauma, depression, grief, healing, healing-insights, hurt, injustice, patience, recovery, survivors
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  • #3
    Voltaire
    “Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: injustice, speaking, thinking, thoughts
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    Bryant McGill
    “Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
    tags: beliefs, free-speech, freedom, guarding, guards, injustice, justice, protection
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  • #5
    Thomas Jefferson
    “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: injustice, moral-responsibility
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  • #6
    W.S. Gilbert
    “I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.”
    ― W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado
    tags: acting, injustice, justice, life, reality, theater
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  • #7
    “It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.”
    ― Vincent A. Gallagher, The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization
    tags: courage, humanity, injustice, suffering
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  • #8
    Criss Jami
    “Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: activist, civil-rights, duty, forgiveness, freedom, grace, injustice, justice, mercy, punishment
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  • #9
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: abused, beginnings, choices, compassion, cruelty, dignity, empowerment, endings, experiences, final-chapters, forgiveness, games, gossip, hurt, image, injustice, justice, lies, life-lessons, mocking, new-journeys, played-with, redemption, repentance, restoration, rumors, self-confidence, self-worth, truth
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  • #10
    Ivo Andrić
    “Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.”
    ― Ivo Andric
    tags: discovery, injustice
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  • #11
    Democritus
    “If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it”
    ― Democritus
    tags: injustice
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  • #12
    Pierce Brown
    “Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: enslave, free, injustice
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    Frantz Fanon
    “The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother-country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
    tags: colonialism
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    Frantz Fanon
    “And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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