"Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven, and in open violation of the constitution and law of these United States and of this state? God forbid! I will not bear it. If they take away my rights, I will fight for them manfully and righteously until I am used up. We have done nothing against the rights of others."

-- Joseph Smith, Jr.

#Freedom Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Rights Quotes

“You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.”
“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.”
“I try to learn something from every character I take on. I try to better myself personally from it and Red allowed me to go ahead and accept what I did. Even though I had passion driving me, I still felt a little guilty that I gave up all the businesses in the pursuit of happiness.”
“If you canâ€™t program it, you havenâ€™t understood it.”
“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.”
“There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.”

Source : Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.21, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“Make deals with people, not paper.”
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.”

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