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“And history has proven over and over again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.”
― quote from While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
“it is not a faith walk if I give you a calendar.”
― quote from While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― quote from While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
“For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that. Martin Luther King Jr., “Where”
― quote from While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr.”
― quote from While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
“She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!”
― Henry James, quote from Washington Square
“(Lincoln reflecting on) George Washington's words: “It is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prospertiy. Washington advised vigilance against “the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, quote from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
“I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love
“Djed je rekao da je puno bolje pokazati čovjeku kako si sam može pomoći, nego dati mu nešto. Jer ako naučiš čovjeka kako da si sam pomogne, onda će se on dalje sam brinuti za sebe i biti neovisan; ali ako mu samo nešto daš i ničemu ga ne naučiš, onda mu moraš do kraja života i dalje davati. Time tom čovjeku činiš medvjeđu uslugu, jer ako postane ovisan o tebi, ukrao si mu karakter.
Po djedovim riječima, neki ljudi vole stalno poklanjati siromašnima jer tada mogu dignuti nos i vjerovati kako su oni nešto bolje nego onaj kojem pomažu; umjesto da nauče siromaha nečemu što bi ga učinilo neovisnim.
„A pošto je ljudska priroda takva kakva jest“, rekao je djed, „uvijek će biti onih koji koriste spoznaju da neki vole dizati nos na taj način. Postanu tako jadni da su voljni biti pas svakom gospodaru koji ih je voljan uzdržavati. Tako se nisko spuste da radije budu pseto gospodina Nadmoćnog, nego svoj čovjek. I onda stalno kukaju i žale se kako im je teško i što im sve fali. A pritom im fali jedna jedina stvar - dobra lekcija i to udarcem noge u guzicu.“
I neki narodi, govorio je djed, dižu nos jer misle da su bolji od drugih, pa drugima daju pomoć, tako da bi sebe mogli nazivati silama. A da imaju srce na pravom mjestu, naučili bi narode kojima „pomažu“ kako će se brinuti sami za sebe. Djed je rekao da bogati narodi to ne žele učiniti jer onda siromašni narodi ne bi više bili ovisni o njima, a to im je zapravo bio cilj.”
― Forrest Carter, quote from The Education of Little Tree
“The trouble with witches is that they’ll never run away from things they really hate.
And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Witches Abroad
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