The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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Kurt Cobain
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
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William Faulkner
In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence, one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.
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Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and–most unforgivably–increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.
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Norman G. Finkelstein
‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the...
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Elsa Tamez
More Quotes By Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end...
