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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Evil, Involved, Protesting

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller

Success, Happiness, Happy

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

Best, Democracy, Argument

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln

Cannot, Stand, House

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Rights, Rest

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, After, Once

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

Conscience, State, Demands

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher

Forget, Saying, Two

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Love, Power, Truth

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Human, Living, Between

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden

Friendship, Good, Art

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain

Laughter, Nothing, Stand

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Mind, Tyranny

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill

Wind, Rise, Highest

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

Person, Cannot, Able

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

Good, Temptation, Cowardice

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Strength, Hurt, Character

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston Churchill

Forget, Until, Possible

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Malcolm X

Truth, Justice, Matter

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Courage, Struggle

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Power, Government, Whether

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

Patriotism, Guard, Pretended

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill

Read, Risk, Defends

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

Read, Risk, Defends

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill

Great, Enemy, Point

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin

God, Obedience, Rebellion

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, War, Children

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Time, Everything, Give

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand

Government, Legal, Dangerous

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

Religion, Him, Put

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