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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
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There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)
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.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One who breaks an unjust law
that conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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