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#1

“He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: brotherhood-of-man, diversity

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#2

“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”
― Gene Roddenberry

tags: community, diversity, idic, tolerance

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#3

“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: diversity

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#4

“Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
― Kevin Smith

tags: controversy, diversity, intelligence

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#5

“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

tags: different-perspectives, diversity, empathy, expanding-boundaries, interests, white-chicks

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#6

“Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.”
― Gordon Willard Allport

tags: civil-rights, diversity, ignorance, psychology, understanding

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#7

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity

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#8

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

tags: contradiction, correcting, correction, criticism, inspirational, opinions, paranoia

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#9

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: bereavement, grief

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#10

“my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.”
― Pablo Neruda

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#11

“If you love with your eyes, death is forever. If you love with your heart, there is no such thing as parting.”
― Michael R. Miller

tags: death-of-a-loved-one, love

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#12

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

tags: censorship, free-speech, progress

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#13

“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Essays

tags: censorship

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#14

“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

tags: censorship, chain-reactions, control, fear, political-bias, religious-prejudice

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#15

“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.”
― Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

tags: books, censorship

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#16

“The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.”
― John Cleese

tags: censorship, critical-thinking, debate, dialogue, emotions, free-speech, freedom, immature, libertarian, liberty, offense, pc, political-correctness, psychology, pussies, safe-space, self-knowledge, trigger, trigger-warning

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#17

“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

tags: banned-books, censorship, evil, fear, freedom, hypocrisy, intellectual-freedom, literature, perversion, puritanism, sterility

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#18

“Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: believes, church, hypocrisy, hypocrites, immorality, judgement, religion, self-righteous, sinning

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#19

“It is far kinder and smarter to show someone a better path in life than to darkly follow down their's with the self-righteous belief that you do so with the purer intentions of justly punishing them for their previous actions, making you hypocritically the same and thus influencing further negative repercussions.”
― Isabella Poretsis

tags: forgiveness, hypocritical, learning, love, past, path, present, previous, repercussions, right-idea, right-path, righteousness, self-righteous, understanding, wrong-path

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#20

“It's time to climb off our high horses and step into the shit.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina, Vol. 4: March to War

tags: high-horse, self-righteous, self-righteousness

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#21

“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
― Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

tags: arms, bill-of-rights, constitution, evil, freedom, good-and-evil, gun, gun-ammo, gun-control, gun-laws, gun-rights, guns, gunslinger, law, moral, morality, protection, rifle, rifles, right-to-bear-arms, right-to-keep-and-bear-arms, righteous, safety, second-amendment, tyranny

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#22

“For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: believer, christianity, fearless, flaws, honesty, humble, humility, imperfect, imperfections, pride, righteous, righteousness, self-righteous, self-righteousness

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#23

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom

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#24

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
― Stephen Fry

tags: censorship, free-speech, humor, libel, offense, philosophical, politics, sarcasm, slander, wisdom

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#25

“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.

If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: books, free-speech, freespeech, offense, rights

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#26

“You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.”
― Richard Pryor

tags: america, free-speech, pornography, priorities, sex, violence

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#27

“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: alternate-views, free-speech, freedom-of-speech

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#28

“Bear in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that every time you violate or propose to violate the free speech of someone else, you en potencia are making a rod for your own back.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: free-speech, free-speech-rights

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#29

“Most of us who champion free speech also believe in the idea of etiquette and the social contract. We simply do not believe that such parameters should be legally enforced by censorship or compelled speech diktats.”
― Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

tags: bigotry, cancel-culture, free-speech, marxism, progressive, sjw, social-justice, victimhood-culture, woke

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#30

“because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall always be insulted by every louse, that is my doom!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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