John Lewis
Politician
"If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it."
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Elijah Muhammad
Religious Leader
"The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim."
Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher, Writer
"Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power"
Robert Kennedy
Politician
"I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on."
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"Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky."
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"We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind."
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"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
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"Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people."
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"All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football."
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"I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in."
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"None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims."
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"It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself."
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"If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try"
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"Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football."
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"Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others."
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"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty."
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"The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself."
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"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."
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"What then is your duty? What the day demands."
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"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."
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"There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
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"In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society."
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"Every claim creates an obligation."
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"My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands."
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