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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”-Ayn Rand

“The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.”-Thomas Hardy

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”-Hubert H. Humphrey

“I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.”-Harvey Milk

“The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.”-Elena Kagan

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Simple Sunday- Respect

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“We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.”-Ruby Bridges

“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”-Albert Einstein

“What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It’s a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable.”
― Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child’s Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life

“Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth” ― Anne McCaffrey, Dragon Harper

“Respect is a close relative of tolerance, and both go a long way to prevent and alleviate the negative interactions between and among people. Respect was a member of each Lakota household during the free-roaming buffalo-hunting days on the northern plains.”― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living

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“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.” -Czeslaw Milosz

“All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.” -Rudyard Kipling

“”Remember upon the conduct of each depends on the fate of all.” -Alexander the Great

“Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.” Alan Colmes