Truth is stranger than fiction, fiction has to make sense. Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Internal exile - Commitment to those who have been crippled, non functional, because of inhuman treatment. Franklin D. Rooseveldt.
Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Robert F. Kennedy. People judge others by what they look like, but I judge people by what's in their hearts. At any given moment there is a sort of all-prevailing orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss some large and uncomfortable fact. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.