“To give support should be commonplace in our society, not to be asked for.”

Dijkstra (2000), &quot;Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering&quot; http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1305.PDF (EWD 1305). <br class="br">2000s

Fánshì dírén fǎnduì de, wǒmen jiù yào yǒnghù; fánshì dírén yǒnghù de, wǒmen jiù yào fǎnduì. <br class="br">If the enemy opposes, we must support it; if the enemy supports it, we must oppose it. <br class="br"> Chapter 2 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch02.htm, originally published in Interview with Three Correspondents from the Central News Agency, the Sao Tang Pao and the Hsin Min Pao (September 16, 1939), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 272. <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)

1963, American University speech

Foreword to The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)

Rappler http://www.rappler.com/nation/1550-outrage-over-attack-on-filipino-boxer <br class="br">2012

Montreal Gazette, April 2, 2003: On the Iraq war.
2003

2016, Remarks to the People of Cuba (March 2016)
Context: The ideals that are the starting point for every revolution -- America’s revolution, Cuba’s revolution, the liberation movements around the world -- those ideals find their truest expression, I believe, in democracy. Not because American democracy is perfect, but precisely because we’re not. And we -- like every country -- need the space that democracy gives us to change. It gives individuals the capacity to be catalysts to think in new ways, and to reimagine how our society should be, and to make them better.

Interview with David Brancaccio (2003)

As quoted in "Renowned activist and press freedom advocate Tawakul Karman to the Yemen Times: 'A day will come when all human rights violators pay for what they did to Yemen.'", in Yemen Times (3 November 2011)
2010s