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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
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    Arundhati Roy
    “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
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    James Baldwin
    “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: fear, hate, pain
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
    There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
    You feel it, don't you?”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Malcolm X
    “We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
    ― Ernesto Che Guevara
    tags: justice, social-justice
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    Malcolm X
    “So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
    tags: accomplishment, action, impetus, inspirational
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    Emma Goldman
    “The most violent element in society is ignorance. ”
    ― Emma Goldman
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    Toni Morrison
    “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: dreams, power
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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    Arundhati Roy
    “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
    ― Arundhati Roy
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    ― Jalalu'l-din Rumi
    tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: life
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
    ― Ernesto Che Guevara
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    Subcomandante Marcos
    “We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.”
    ― Subcomandante Marcos
    tags: revolution, zapatista
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    Margaret J. Wheatley
    “Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”
    ― Margaret Wheatley
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    William Arthur Ward
    “Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: inspirational, just-do-it, live-life, make-a-difference
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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    Arthur Golden
    “We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: geisha, life
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    Yann Martel
    “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Woody Guthrie
    “Take it easy, but take it.”
    ― Woody Guthrie
    tags: inspiration, philosophy
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    Woody Guthrie
    “Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”
    ― Woody Guthrie
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    Arundhati Roy
    “Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    John Green
    “It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    David Mitchell
    “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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