"No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy."

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Fred Korematsu

#Race Quotes #Ethnicity Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love.”
“Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.”
“Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains.”
“The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.”
“We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.”
“Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.”
“There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other peopleâ€™s lives.”
“The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.”

Source : David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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