Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.

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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.― Charlotte Brontë

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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.― Dorothy L. Sayers

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There's no point in being complete on the outside when you're broken in the inside.

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The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. ― Gaylord Nelson

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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

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Don’t blame me for your mediocrity, it’s not my fault you lack integrity” ― Aida Mandic

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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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