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-->-- '''[[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]'''[[note]]It takes a ''very'' special person to still believe in human benevolence '''during the goddamn holocaust.'''[[/note]]

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-->-- '''[[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]'''[[note]]It takes a ''very'' special person to still believe in human benevolence '''during the goddamn holocaust.'''[[/note]]
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-->-- '''Nelson Mandela'''

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-->-- '''Nelson Mandela'''Mandela'''

->''"I believe in my fellow citizens. Our headlines are splashed with crime. Yet for every criminal, there are ten thousand honest, decent, kindly men. If it were not so, no child would live to grow up. Business could not go on from day to day. Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime."''
-->-- '''Creator/RobertAHeinlein''', ''Our Noble Essential Decency''
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->''"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."''

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->''"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation [[GoodIsNotSoft does not have to be cruel to be tough.tough]]."''

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->''"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."''
-->-- '''[[Literature/AesopsFables Aesop]]'''



-->-- '''Anne Frank'''[[note]]It takes a ''very'' special person to still believe in human benevolence '''during the goddamn holocaust.'''[[/note]]

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-->-- '''Anne Frank'''[[note]]It '''[[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]]'''[[note]]It takes a ''very'' special person to still believe in human benevolence '''during the goddamn holocaust.'''[[/note]]



-->-- '''Mohandas K. Gandhi'''

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-->-- '''Mohandas '''[[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Mohandas K. Gandhi'''
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-->-- '''Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'''

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-->-- '''Dr.'''[[UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'''
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->''"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt'''
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-->-- '''Sri Sri Ravi Shankar'''

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-->-- '''Sri Sri Ravi Shankar'''Shankar'''

->''"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must '''learn''' to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught '''to love''', for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."''
-->-- '''Nelson Mandela'''
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-->-- '''Anne Frank'''[[note]]It takes a ''very'' special person to still believe in human goodness '''during the goddamn holocaust'''[[/note]]

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-->-- '''Anne Frank'''[[note]]It takes a ''very'' special person to still believe in human goodness benevolence '''during the goddamn holocaust'''[[/note]]
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->''"Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness."''
-->-- '''Anne Frank'''[[note]]It takes a ''very'' special person to still believe in human goodness '''during the goddamn holocaust'''[[/note]]

->''"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."''
-->-- '''Mohandas K. Gandhi'''

->''"There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness."''
-->-- '''Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'''

->''"When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today."''
-->-- '''Sri Sri Ravi Shankar'''

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