"If the truth is told, things are..." - Quote by Anne Frank
If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.
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“The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.”
“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”
“Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.”
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“Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.”
“A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.”
“Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.”