„Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. . .“
R.U.R. supplement in The Saturday Review (1923)
Kontext: Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word... I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.
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— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965
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— Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone British judge, politician, life peer and Cabinet minister 1907 - 2001
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— Lawrence Lessig American academic, political activist. 1961
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— Zhang Zhaozhong Chinese admiral 1952
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— Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965
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2000s, True Believer (2005)

— Ted Cruz American politician 1970
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