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->''Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.''
-->--''Literature/DoubleStar''
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->''"I don't think centrist is meant to be a strictly pejorative term, but in left-leaning circles centrists tend to not be viewed that favorably for a variety of reasons, usually having to do with enabling far-righters in a meaningless and misguided exercise in 'hearing everyone out'."''
-->--'''@/{{Draghinazzo}}''', [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13103447000A18674100&page=14095 The General U.S. Politics Thread]]
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->"As Musmar the Night Manager, the greatest of all Elakhon rulers, wrote in his autobiography ''Who Moved My Invincible Doomsday Device?'' neutrality was always a much more delicate operation than war or peace. Neutrality without a respectable bulge of firepower in your pocket was as good as telling the universe, ''I am a helpless vulnerable fuzzy baby with a wet pink nose, please annihilate me at your earliest convenience.'' But declaring neutrality from beneath an elaborate pillow fort of prosperity, military dominance, and a diverse entertainment industry made you look as enticing to all your postwar neighbors as a rich kid's lunch money. After all, it's always the fancy house that keeps its lights off and won't shell out for candy that's first pillaged on Halloween."
-->-- '''Literature/SpaceOpera'''
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->''"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere."''
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->''"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant."''
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->"''Every one of my acts commits me as a man. Every one of my silences, every one of my cowardices reveals me as a man."''
-->-- '''Frantz Fanon'''
-->-- '''Frantz Fanon'''
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'''Olivia:''' I hate to break it to you, lady, but neutrality is a side. It's the side of the status quo.\\
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'''Olivia:''' I hate to break it to you, lady, but neutrality is a side. It's the side of the status quo.\\
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->'''Diana:''' This is not how it works. We don't just join the revolution. ICA is neutral. We do not take sides.\\
'''Olivia:''' I hate to break it to you, lady, but neutrality is a side. It's the side of the status quo.\\
-->-- ''VideoGame/Hitman2''
'''Olivia:''' I hate to break it to you, lady, but neutrality is a side. It's the side of the status quo.\\
-->-- ''VideoGame/Hitman2''
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->''"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere."''
-->-- '''Elie Wiesel'''
-->-- '''Elie Wiesel'''
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-->--'''G'Kar to Londo'', ''Series/BabylonFive'': "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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->''"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
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->''"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.""''
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->"''I will take an insincere display of charity over a genuine display of apathy any day of the week."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', on "We Are The World"
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->''"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}''', ''Literature/TheBookOfRevelation'' 3:15-16
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->''"...You can't even be neutral, because then'' both ''sides will call you a [[DirtyCoward pussy]]."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/{{Pyrocynical}}'''
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-->-- '''Martin Luther King, Jr.''', "[[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Letter from a Birmingham Jail]]"
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-->-- '''Martin Luther King, King Jr.''', "[[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Letter from a Birmingham Jail]]"Jail]]"
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
-->-- '''Martin Luther King Jr.'''
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
-->-- '''Martin Luther King Jr.'''
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->''"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."''
-->-- '''Martin Luther King, Jr.''', "[[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Letter from a Birmingham Jail]]"
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->'''Zap Brannigan:''' I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand, but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.
-->-- "Brannigan, Begin Again", ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
-->-- "Brannigan, Begin Again", ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
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-->-- '''Zap Brannigan''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Brannigan, Begin
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-->--'''G'Kar to Londo'',''Series/BabylonFive'': "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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-->--'''G'Kar to Londo'',''Series/BabylonFive'': Londo'', ''Series/BabylonFive'': "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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->'''Sir Humphrey:''' Prime Minister, it has been put to me that as smoking is not a political issue the government must not take sides.\\
'''Jim Hacker:''' You mean we have to be impartial?\\
'''Sir Humphrey:''' Exactly!\\
'''Jim Hacker:''' Impartial as between the fire engine and the fire?
-->-- ''Series/YesPrimeMinister''
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->''"You're wrong, Mollari. Whether it was me or my world, whether it was a total stranger or your worst enemy, you were a witness! It doesn't matter if they stopped. It doesn't matter if they'd listen. You had an obligation to speak out!"
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->''"You're wrong, Mollari. Whether it was me or my world, whether it was a total stranger or your worst enemy, you were a witness! It doesn't matter if they stopped. It doesn't matter if they'd listen. You had an obligation to speak out!"out!"''
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->''"You're wrong, Mollari. Whether it was me or my world, whether it was a total stranger or your worst enemy, you were a witness! It doesn't matter if they stopped. It doesn't matter if they'd listen. You had an obligation to speak out!"
-->--'''G'Kar to Londo'',''Series/BabylonFive'': "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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->''"There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal."''
-->'''Martin Luther King Jr.''', “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”
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->"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, then you have ''chosen'' to side with the oppressor. If an elephant is standing on the tail of a mouse, that mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-->-- Varyingly attributed to Nelson Mandela and to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, both champions against Apartheid in South Africa
-->-- Varyingly attributed to Nelson Mandela and to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, both champions against Apartheid in South Africa
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->"But keep telling yourself that because politics is dirty, so very dirty, that you, precious, by not voting or informing yourself or participating in any way, are clean. Yeah, that’s it. You’ve kept yourself pure, because you haven’t gotten your hands sullied by the gutter that is American politics.
->Well, you can keep telling yourself that. But, the truth is, if your hands aren’t dirty, it’s not because you’re pure. It’s because ''you’re not helping''."
->Well, you can keep telling yourself that. But, the truth is, if your hands aren’t dirty, it’s not because you’re pure. It’s because ''you’re not helping''."
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->"But keep telling yourself that because politics is dirty, so very dirty, that you, precious, by not voting or informing yourself or participating in any way, are clean. Yeah, that’s it. You’ve kept yourself pure, because you haven’t gotten your hands sullied by the gutter that is American politics.
->Well,politics. Well, you can keep telling yourself that. But, the truth is, if your hands aren’t dirty, it’s not because you’re pure. It’s because ''you’re not helping''."
->Well,
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->"But keep telling yourself that because politics is dirty, so very dirty, that you, precious, by not voting or informing yourself or participating in any way, are clean. Yeah, that’s it. You’ve kept yourself pure, because you haven’t gotten your hands sullied by the gutter that is American politics.
->Well, you can keep telling yourself that. But, the truth is, if your hands aren’t dirty, it’s not because you’re pure. It’s because ''you’re not helping''."
-->-- '''Bill Maher''', ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher'', on the low voter turnout of the 2014 election.
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-->-- '''JohnFKennedy''', '''UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy''', misquoting Dante
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-->-- '''JohnFKennedy'', misquoting Dante
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-->-- '''JohnFKennedy'', '''JohnFKennedy''', misquoting Dante
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->"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
-->-- '''Dante Alighieri''', ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy The Inferno]]''
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->'''Zap Brannigan:''' I hate these Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand, but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.
-->-- "Brannigan, Begin Again", ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
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-->-- "Brannigan, Begin Again", ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
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