“ A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! ”
- James Connolly- Copy
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“ The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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“ The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ”
- H.U. Westermayer- Copy
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“ At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below. ”
- Theodosia Garrison- Copy
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“ While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us? I know you will cry with me, NEVER! NEVER! ”
- Tecumseh- Copy
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“ We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons… He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ Saddam Hussein committed many crimes, the most important of which are the mass graves that hold hundreds of thousands of Iraqis including children, women, the elderly and men who were buried without a trial. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit — not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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