“Do you know why this world is as bad as it is? […] it is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doer to light.”

—  Anna Sewell , book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XXXVIII, p. 192

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