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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am… — H. L. Mencken
Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest? — Aldous Huxley
When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do… — John Leguizamo
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to… — Studs Terkel
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of… — Leonardo da Vinci
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was… — Hermann Hesse
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may… — Bertrand Russell
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence… — Vladimir Lenin
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. — Henry Ward Beecher
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. — Plutarch
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever. — Ugo Betti
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott… — Cesar Chavez
Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most… — Cesar Chavez
Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who work in the… — Cesar Chavez
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog. — Harold Wilson
He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged. — Simone Signoret
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own… — George Santayana
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star… — E. M. Forster
The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its… — Adolf Hitler
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. — Samuel Johnson
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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