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- Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.
- Leo Braeck
- We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- The less their ability, the more their conceit.
- Ahad HaAm
- It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836)
- Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
- Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
- Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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