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“It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life.”
― Tillie Olsen, Silences

“I am not overly encumbered by principle, as you know,” Zelikman continued. “I am a gentlemen of the road, an apostate from the faith of my fathers, a renegade, a brigand, a hired blade, a thief, but on this one small principle of economy, damn you, and damn that troublemaking little stripling, and damn every one of those men out there, living men, in full possession, for the most part, of all their limbs and humors, I have to hold firm: if we can only save them one man at a time, then by God we must only kill them one man at a time.”
― Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

“Every person is just an obstacle unless you try to understand them.”
― Trevor Noah, Into the Uncut Grass

“While freedom can be achieved, it may also be reduced or rescinded, It can never be taken for granted.”
― Eric Foner, Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, Volume 2