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- "So, if you are interested in pursuing a life of social justice, be prepared to be uncomfortable – be prepared to press beyond your comfort zone, be prepared to be misunderstood and criticized. It may seem more comfortable to engage in social diversions than to try to make the world a better place for those who are suffering. But if you are willing to be uncomfortable and you invest some of your time and creativity in work to change the world, you will find it extremely rewarding." —William P. Quigley, Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice.
- "I am not sorry for who I had to become in order to survive." — Schuyler Peck
- "Judaism is not a religion of blind obedience. Indeed, astonishingly in a religion of 613 commandments, there is no Hebrew word that means “to obey”. When Hebrew was revived as a living language in the nineteenth century, and there was need for a verb meaning “to obey,” it had to be borrowed from the Aramaic: le-tsayet. Instead of a word meaning “to obey,” the Torah uses the verb shema, untranslatable into English because it means [1] to listen, [2] to hear, [3] to understand, [4] to internalise, and [5] to respond. Written into the very structure of Hebraic consciousness is the idea that our highest duty is to seek to understand the will of God, not just to obey blindly." —Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.
- "At some point you gotta decide for yourself who you want to be, can't let nobody make that decision for you." —Moonlight (Barry Jenkins / 2016).
- "Us humans are always close to destruction. Life itself is but a series of close calls. I mean, how would you know you were alive unless you knew you could die?" —Atlanta (Donald Glover / 2016).
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