Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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