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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sun shines even on the wicked.
- Seneca
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
- Ronald Reagan
God became man that dehumanized men might become true men. We become true men in the community of the incarnate, the suffering and loving, the human God.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Faith] sees in the resurrection of Christ not the eternity of heaven, but the future of the very earth on which his cross stands. It sees in him the future of the very humanity for which he died. That is why it finds the cross the hope of the earth.
- Jurgen Moltmann
God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.
- J. Gresham Machen
No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness that we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?
- JM Coetzee
We partake of the ideal but we also make poo.
- JM Coetzee
I'm going to write ceaselessly about the dignity of human beings no matter who and or what they are, and the less dignity a person has the fewer words I'll use.
- Jack Kerouac
Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
- Alveda King