“Standards of education, ideals of Right-and-Wrong, conventions, creeds, codes, stagnate Mankind.”
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We must not become inured to dehumanization. Hold the line against attempts to make marginalization acceptable. Recognize that all of us have rights, regardless of status, nationality or identity. Don't let them make us into bad people. We know from history what that looks like.
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38
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Thank goodness they had instructions. I was just about to clamber up! 🚽
“How is it that half of America looks at Donald Trump and doesn’t find him morally repellent? He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly, and more than 70 million Americans find him, at the very least, morally acceptable. Some even see him as heroic, admirable, and wonderful. What has brought us to this state of moral numbness?”
I’m thinking more and more that I might really need to see this movie: “The world is a complicated place. Life is complicated, both for each of us individually and for all of us together. But saving lives is not complicated. Whether to stop a war or not is not a difficult decision. Both are easy. People were going to die. That was the only thing that mattered. You shouldn’t have to be a super man to recognize that. We all should.”
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https://nerdist.com/article/superman-highlights-power-of-kindness-importance-right-vs-wrong/
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 844ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Theodoridis (2007)]
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A quotation from Josh Billings
We are never nearer right than we am when we fear we are rong.Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, Massachusetts
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