“Quote Unquote”
January 3, 2014 § 1 Comment
Voices lost forever in 2013 …
“A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.” — Nelson Mandela
“In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.” — Doris Lessing
“We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.” — Margaret Thatcher
“It always bothers me to see people writing ‘RIP’ when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop-out. To me, ‘RIP’ is the microwave dinner of posthumous honors.” — Lou Reed
“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.” — Roger Ebert
“History says don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.” — Seamus Heaney
“Mr. Jesus died for the bigots as well.” — Rev. Will Campbell
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” — Jonathan Winters
“We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.” — Dr. Joyce Brothers
“Quote Unquote”
July 26, 2013 § Leave a comment
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” — Nelson Mandela
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” — Lewis B. Smedes
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. … The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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