“The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.”
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Every human has four endowments- self awareness,
“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
— Stephen Covey
Author: Stephen Covey
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Our country is now taking so steady
“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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The essence of Government is power; and
“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
— James Madison
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Why do we love the sea? It
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”
— Robert Henri
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Kindness is in our power, even when
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
— Samuel Johnson
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I protest that if some great Power
“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.”
— Thomas Huxley
Author: Thomas Huxley
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No power on earth has a right
“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.”
— John Jay
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All men having power ought to be
“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”
— James Madison
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I cured with the power that came
“I cured with the power that came through me.”
— Black Elk
Author: Black Elk
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When the imagination and will power are
“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”
— Emile Coue
Author: Emile Coue
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