“What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , book The First Circle

Source: The First Circle

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Russian writer 1918–2008

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