Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
Interpretation
Those who have the ability must act for those who cannot, and it is important to advocate for the voiceless.
This quote by Terry Pratchett emphasizes the moral obligation of individuals who possess skills or resources to assist those who lack them. It highlights the importance of advocacy and support for marginalized voices, suggesting that it is not enough to simply recognize inequality; one must actively participate in addressing it.
In practice
During a fundraiser, someone could quote this to emphasize the need for action on behalf of the underprivileged.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.
Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try.
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