"Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work."
-Chief Joseph
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"I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people."
-Chief Joseph
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"We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end."
-Chief Joseph
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"I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed."
-Chief Joseph
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"I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition."
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"I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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