"History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?"

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Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing 2: Independent Study”, p.22, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

Joelle Charbonneau

#Sacrifice Quotes #Progress Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”
“Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.”

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“We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.”
“I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.”
“The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.”
“I find love from time to time.”
“Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.”
“I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.”

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