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title: "5 Obligation Think Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/there-is-a-moral-obligation-i-think-not-to-ally-oneself-with-power/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

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> [The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/the-law-is-a-powerful-thing-but-the-law-doesn-t-always-change-what-s/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [Forgiveness is the act of freeing yourself from an obligation to think negative thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/forgiveness-is-the-act-of-freeing-yourself-from-an-obligation-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colson-whitehead/i-can-t-say-that-you-should-extract-this-or-that-value-from-my-books/)

[Colson Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colson-whitehead/)

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> [“...Let me say that I do think decency and civilization would insist that the writer take sides with the powerless. Clearly, there's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/let-me-say-that-i-do-think-decency-and-civilization-would-insist-that/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/753/chinua-achebe-781_art_let-me-say-that-i-do-think-decency-and-c_2970614.jpg)

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