Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 607
“We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.”
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John F. Kennedy
(1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
"Proclamation 3560 — Thanksgiving Day, 1963" (5 November 1963) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9511<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project -->
1963
Context: Today we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers — for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings — let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals — and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.
“… it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
(1965) Novelist
Source: The Dream Hunter
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.
“We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.”
John Marshall
(1755–1835) fourth Chief Justice of the United States
17 U.S. (4 Wheaton) 316, 407
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
H. Jay Dinshah
(1933–2000) American proponent of veganism and Jain ethics
Out of the Jungle (1967); as quoted in Victoria Moran, Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism (Wellingborough: Thorsons, 1985), p. 31.
Tommy Douglas
(1904–1986) Scottish-born Canadian politician
Address, Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.