A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

 

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Chapter 8, "Hawks"

 

Ursula K. Le Guin

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We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until "justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

 

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God is being repaired. L'École des cadavres (School for Corpses), Denoël 1942, p.6

 

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A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

 

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We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

 

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