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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States from 1801 to 1809

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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)

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Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world from beyond the barrier of what happened. They find themselves unable to communicate their condition to those who remained at home, resenting civilians for their blind innocence.
The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015

Knowing the difference between right and wrong is not some religious ideal; it is our moral obligation.

People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who’ve endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.

The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015

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