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There is only one question which really matters: why do bad things happen to good people?

Harold S. Kushner

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When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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Kushner, Harold. When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Schocken Books, 1981, ch. 1.

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I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

Pauline Kael

Remark in an address to the Modern Language Association after Richard Nixon's landslide election win in 1972.

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Kael, Pauline. Quoted in "Critics Here Focus on Films As Language Conference Opens." Written by Israel Shenker. The New York Times, 28 Dec. 1972. Originally stated in a lecture at the Modern Language Association, Dec. 1972.

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The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Agar, Herbert. A Time for Greatness. Little, Brown and Company, 1942.

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Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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Fulghum, Robert. "Credo." All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. 1986.

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Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

Joseph Welch

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To Joseph McCarthy, on June 9th, 1954, defending the US Army against allegations of subversive activities.

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Welch, Joseph. Quoted in No Sense of Decency, written by Robert Shogun. Ivan R. Dee, 2009, ch. 10. Originally a speech "Have You No Sense of Decency?" Army-McCarthy Hearings. 9 June 1954, Washington, DC, USA.

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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, preface.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-2 Editions. Library of America, 2011, preface to 1855 edition.

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We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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Whitman, Walt. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" Leaves of Grass. New York: Self-published, 1867, st. 2. Originally published in Drum-Taps. New York: Peter Eckler, 1865, st. 2.

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You get a car! You get a car! You get a car!

Oprah Winfrey

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"Oprah's 20th Anniversary Season Premiere." Hosted by Oprah Winfrey. The Oprah Winfrey Show. King World Productions, 13 Sept. 2004.

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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 18.

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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

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Set me free, why don'tcha, baby
Get out my life, why don'tcha, baby
'Cause you don't really love me
You just keep me hangin' on.

The Supremes

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You Keep Me Hangin' On

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Holland, Eddie and Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier. You Keep Me Hangin' On. Performed by The Supremes. Motown Records, 1966.

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So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U. S. A.

Bruce Springsteen

Born in the U.S.A

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Springsteen, Bruce. "Born in the U.S.A." Born in the U.S.A. Columbia Records, 1984.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

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Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, ch. 1.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.

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I submit that 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 law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

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A republic, if you can keep it.

Benjamin Franklin

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Franklin, Benjamin. Response to a question by Mrs. Powel. Constitutional Convention. 18 Sept. 1787, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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Franklin, Benjamin. Quoted in "'A Republic if you can keep it': Elizabeth Willing Powwel, Benjamin Franklin, and the James McHenry Journal. Library of Congress. Posted 6 Jan. 2022, blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts.

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