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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 2.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.

Barack Obama

Quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., who likely was paraphrasing a quote by Theodore Parker in 1853.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Keep Moving From This Mountain." 25 Feb. 1965, Temple Israel of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 6.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 7.

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"Ex and the City." Sex and the City, written by Darren Star and Michael Patrick King and Candace Bushnell, directed by Michael Patrick King, season 2, episode 18, Darren Star Productions, 1999.

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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Directed by Jay Roach, New Line Productions/Capella International/Moving Pictures/Eric's Boy/KC Medien, 1997.

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Directed by Irvin Kershner, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1980.

When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant

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Orwell, George. "Shooting an Elephant." New Writing, no. 2, Autumn 1936.

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Orwell, George. "Shooting and Elephant." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 1: An Age Like This 1920-1940. David R. Godine, 2019, no. 88.

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." Scribner's Magazine, May 1929 - Oct. 1929, bk. 2, ch. 21.

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Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Scribners, 1995, bk. 2, ch. 21.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Clinton, William J. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1997, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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Crimson Tide. Directed by Tony Scott, Hollywood Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1995.

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The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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The Notorious B.I.G. "Juicy." Ready to Die. Bad Boy Records/Arista Records, 1994.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

I know enough about men to steer clear of them.

Rooster Cogburn

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Rooster Cogburn. Directed by Stuart Millar, Hal Wallis Productions, 1975.

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Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.