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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man. — Frederick Douglass
The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects. — Che Guevara
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went… — Sojourner Truth
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of… — Sadako Ogata
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform… — Jonathan Schell
My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren. — Simon Wiesenthal
I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet.… — Avril Lavigne
Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a… — James Howell
There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets… — Al Gore
Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on… — Ray Lewis
Determination will make you find the path to your goals. It will cause you to educate yourself on what it will take to reach your… — Jean Charest
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does… — Richard M. Nixon
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. — Abraham Lincoln
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently,… — Emile Durkheim
There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant… — Sun Tzu
Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes… — Sun Tzu
And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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