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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human.
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A specter is haunting Eastern Europe: the specter of what in the West is called “dissent.”

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
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Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

parade, Times Picayune

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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, overtime, gain in political significance.
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Genuine politics—politics worthy of the name, and the only politics I am willing to devote myself to—is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community, and serving those who will come after us.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Disturbing the Peace

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Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
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I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
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