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“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.”

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Author:Edward R. Murrow

“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.”

“Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.”

“Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.”

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Author:James Gibbons

“The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.”

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Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.”

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.”

Source: Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society

“I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.”

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Author:Belva Ann Lockwood