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There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on bath sides; and almost every individual involved, no matter where he stood, combined some or all of these antithetical qualities in his own person, in his own acts.... It will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

Dalton Trumbo

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On the Hollywood blacklist of suspected communists during the Red Scare.

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Trumbo, Dalton. Speech accepting an award from the Writers' Guild. 13 Mar. 1970, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Trumbo, Dalton. Quoted in Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, written by Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo. University Press of Kentucky, 2015, ch. 22.

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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Lewis Thomas

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Thomas, Lewis. Address given at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. c. 1978, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA.

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Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth, a thing no more to be doled out to us, or withheld from us, by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind.

Roger Casement

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Casement, Roger. King's Bench. R vs Casement [1017] KB 98, 134. 29 June 1916.

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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation…we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

Address to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946

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Baruch, Bernard M. Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. First session of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. 14 June 1946, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA.

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Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

Dean Rusk

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Rusk, Dean. Speech to American Bar Association. 22 Oct. 1964, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First.

Donald Trump

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump

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Read this speech at UVA's Miller Center website

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Trump, Donald. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2017, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Sotomayer, Sonia. Speech at the University of California, Berkeley. Annual Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture. 26 Oct. 2001, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

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Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud...Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

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Mandela, Nelson. "Inaugural Address." 10 May 1994, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa, Africa.

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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Remarks at the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. 14 Nov. 1957, Washington DC, USA.

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In my lifetime, all the problems have come mainland Europe, and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

Margaret Thatcher

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Thatcher, Margaret. Speech to Scottish Tories. Conservative Party conference. 5 Oct. 1999, Blackpool, England, UK.

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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. Victory speech in presidential election. 4 Nov. 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, IL, USA.

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The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Annual Message to Congress

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Lincoln, Abraham. Second Annual Message to Congress. 1 Dec. 1862, US Congress, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory...was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward, just as yeast rises up, through the ranks.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign address. 2 Oct. 1932, Detroit, MI, USA.

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The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress. 10 Feb. 1940, Washington, DC, USA.

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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.

Pope John Paul II

On Judaism and the Jewish people.

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Pope John Paul II. "Text of Pope's Speech at Rome Synagogue: 'You Are Our Elder Brothers.'" The New York Times, 14 Apr. 1986, sec. A, p. 4. Originally was a speech to the Jewish Community of Rome. 13 Apr. 1986, Great Synagogue of Rome, Rome, Italy.

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