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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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