It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Louis Zukofsky
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It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own. The people of the world need to do more for one another. It is very easy to sit around and feel sorry for ourselves, but it is much harder to stand up and do something about the problems we face.

Source: Collected Fiction

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