All the movements in the world, all the laws, the drives, the edicts will never do what personal relationships can do and must do.
Change in a democracy can be brought about quickly or slowly. The speed depends on its people's honesty of mind, their values, their humility and knowledge and insight; and, above all else, on the will to act, once they realize the need for action.
Change means leaving one's memories, one's sins, one's ancient prison, the room where one was born.
Courage is a word for others to use about us, not something we can seek for ourselves.
Crises are two edged; they always create possibilities for both evil and good.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Faith and doubt both are needed- not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Like sex, knowledge is good if used in the service of life and love.
Loyalty is a verbal switch-blade used by little and big bosses to force us quickly to accept a questionable situation which our intelligence and conscience should reject.
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
No journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.
Rich folks always talk hard times.
Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
There are two kinds of ordeals, of course: those we choose and those that seem to choose us.
There is no person, no group of people, no nation, that does not make grave mistakes. The test is: can they rectify their mistake?
There is nothing more powerful than ignorance, not even intelligence.
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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