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In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions. ↗

— David Miliband

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The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later. ↗

— David Miliband

#bought #brussels #died #finger #grandfather

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#being #center #country #doing #gay

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#being #better #chance #creature #exertions

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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