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• You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.

  Tim Wise

  White, People, Justice

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• We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Running, Hope, Fashion

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• When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

  Patricia Ireland

  Children, Men, Discipline

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• To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by our imperial ancestors and which lies close to our heart.

  Hirohito

  Lying, Heart, Common

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• There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to meet, no duties, no obligations. I had nothing to do and a thousand nameless, sun-drenched streets to do it in.

  Steven Saylor

  Cities, Mind, Sun

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• Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals.  First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Matter, Be Kind

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• If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that has not been fully revealed. We see that in actual life He does not treat all alike. For wise reasons known only to Himself He has given to some blessings to which they had no claim…and has withheld from others gifts which He was under no obligation to bestow.

  Loraine Boettner

  Wise, Blessing, People

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• I think this president has so badly abused his power, breached his trust in remarkable ways with our Congress, with the American people, has violated so many of our international treaty obligations, our Constitution, our domestic statutory laws, and has been responsible for ordering and condoning heinous human rights violations. We need to draw the line.

  Rocky Anderson

  Thinking, Rights, Law

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• From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Flow, Duty, Knows

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.122, Da Capo Press

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• We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. That’s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Love, Time, Responsibility

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• Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

  Bob Ufer

  Football, Holy Days, Saturday

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• They just want to continue playing their little game of power. And I feel that us people have the responsibility and also the obligation to demand to our leaders to give us the pacifist solutions. To give us a world in peace.

  Shakira

  Responsibility, Games, People

  "Shakira Calls For Peace, Explains Mongoose Mystery" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. February 4, 2003.

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• But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Political, Levers, Littles

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• I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking

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• Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.

  Ellen Page

  Responsibility, Social, Feels

  "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

  Van Jones

  Strong, Jobs, Jail

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• I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

  Andrew Stanton

  Influence, Exposure, Status Quo

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

  Andrew Stanton

  Independent, Want, Able

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• Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Inspiration, Should

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• Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.

  Tom Brokaw

  People, Important, Pieces

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• We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Fields, Different

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• We writers  – and especially writers for children, but all writers –  have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Lying, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Moral, Said

  "Twenty-one Reasons to Dig Viggo Mortensen" by Allison Glock, GQ, November 1, 2003.

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• You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

  Marla Gibbs

  Cheat

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