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Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn but only forgive. ~ Philip Pullman

Day 100: Philip Pullman
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Source: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. (2009)

As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them. ~ Stephen King

Day 99: Stephen King
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Source: "The Book-Banners: Adventure in Censorship is Stranger Than Fiction." March 20, 1992

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here on the bottom, we, too, should have rights. ~ Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)

Day 97: Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
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Source: Yertle, the Turtle (1958)

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. ~ Aldous Huxley Source: "The Double Crisis" (1949)

Day 97: Aldous Huxley
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Source: "The Double Crisis" (1949)

There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!" ~ Anne Frank

Day 96: Anne Frank
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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl (1952)

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A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Day 95: Robert A. Heinlein
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Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Day 94: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Source: A Scandal in Bohemia. (1891)

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console. ~ Elie Wiesel

Day 93: Elie Wiesel
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Source: Open Heart (2012)

The truth is, we’re the ones who make the system. We can unmake it, too. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Day 92: N.K. Jemisin
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Source: The Fifth Season (2015)

In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn. ~ Octavia Butler.

Day 91: Octavia Butler
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Source: Parable of the Talents (1998)

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Day 90: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Source: The Dispossessed (1974)

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. ~ Theodore Sturgeon

Day 89: Theodore Sturgeon
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Source: More Than Human. (1965).

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. ~ Samuel R. Delany

Day 88: Samuel R. Delany
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Source: Triton (1977)

Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some. ~ Margaret Atwood

Day 87: Margaret Atwood
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Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

Down there are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no. ~ Terry Pratchett

Day 86: Terry Pratchett
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Source: Guards! Guards!: A Novel of Discworld (1989)

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Day 85: Robert A. Heinlein
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Source: Revolt in 2100. (1952)

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. ~ George Orwell

Day 84: George Orwell
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Source: 1984 (1949)

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Day 83: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Source: Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered. ~ HG Wells

Day 82: H.G. Wells
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Source: The Outline of History (1920)

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give. ~ Philip K. Dick

Day 81: Philip K. Dick
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Source: Valis (1981)

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management.~ William Gibson

Day 80: William Gibson
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Source: Pattern Recognition (2003)

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ~ Isaac Asimov

Day 79: Isaac Asimov
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Source: “The Cult of Ignorance.” (1980)

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The empire’s greatest weapon is our silence. ~ Daniel José Older

Day 78: Daniel José Older
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Source: Last Shot (2018)

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls. ~ Roger Zelazny

Day 77: Roger Zelazny
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Source: The Hand of Oberon. (1976)