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“I am not God but something similar”

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Roberto Duran, born on June 16, 1951, is a legendary professional boxer. He reached the peak of his career in the early to mid-1980s, known for his unique fighting style and multiple world championship titles. more

“Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.”

Needs States Done Individual Belief Nations Church Groups Mad Possession Harm Wicked Sole Mistaken Tribes Suppressing Restraining

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.”

People Men Individual Hatred Victim Deeper Commit Contempt

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.”

Thinking Way Used Individual Social Term Position Meaningful Aliens Insanity Obscure Threatening Psychosis Social Power

Author:Seymour Krim

“English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.”

Ifs Years Two Age Law Left Cases Mercy Ears Thirds Two Years Offense Repetition Beggar Offence Branded Felons English Law

Author:Karl Marx

“It is not only our hatred of others that is dangerous but also and above all our hatred of ourselves: particularly that hatred of ourselves which is too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. For it is this which makes us see our own evil in others and unable to see it in ourselves.”

Evil Powerful Dangerous Hatred Too Deep

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.”

Fall Interest Prejudice Combat

Book:Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings

Source: Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings

“To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.”

Courses Environment Stupid Cost Harmony Merit Misfortunes Surroundings Avoided

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.”

Men World Giving Hands Courses Century Color Duty Please Civilization Benefits Injustice Debt Cruelty Benevolence Atonement

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.”

Thinking Common Prejudice Common Sense Rooted

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence”

May Heaven Unions Us History Beneficence

Author:George Washington

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