The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I believe in individuality, but individuals are, to the mass, like waves to the ocean. The highest order of genius is as dependent as is the lowest.
We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.
Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.
We must all learn to live together as brothers — or we will all perish together as fools. This is the great issue facing us today. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone. We are tied together.
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
