“However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.”
Source: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
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“Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.”
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
Similar to Quran 5:32, as quoted in 1,000 Days in Prison: Narges Mohammadi Condemns Iranian Judiciary’s “Subservience” to Security Agencies https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2018/02/1000-days-in-prison-narges-mohammadi-condemns-iranian-judiciarys-subservience-to-security-agencies/ (February 21, 2018), Center for Human Rights in Iran.
The Left and Rights (Routledge: 1983), p. 18 http://books.google.com/books?id=9kPnuG9ufDgC&pg=RA1-PT18
“Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.”
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Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986)
“one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap”
Source: "The Scientific Character of Geology," 1961, p. 453; quoted in: Robert Woodtli (1964), Methods of Prospection for Chromite, p. 80