The people are what matter to government and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
~~~ Frances Perkins
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When a people agree to form themselves into a republic … it is understood that they mutually resolve and pledge themselves to each other, rich and poor alike, to support this rule of equal justice among them … (and) they renounce as detestable, the power of exercising, at any future time any species of despotism over each other, or of doing a thing not right in itself, because a majority of them may have the strength of numbers sufficient to accomplish it.
Thomas Paine (1776), giving us a timely reminder on the eve of Law Day in the United States
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It would seem that, quite possibly, the ultimate measure of health in any community might well reside in our ability to stand in awe at what folks have to carry rather than in judgment at how they carry it.
Gregory Boyle
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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman
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“Grandiose people cannot create peace.”
~~~ Richard Rohr
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