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- In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able…
- Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by…
- I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth…
- The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all…
- But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
- I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
- Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to…
- I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach…
- No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's…
- As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will…
- This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
- The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
- HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none…
- I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be…
- I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
- I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
- War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that…
- Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation…
- I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos…
- It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing…
- America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is…
- All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not…
- Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
- Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle