Live and die Quote by Misty Griffin

“The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.”

— Bryant McGill

“It is always easy to mock 'distress,' but we are its contemporaries; we are at the endpoint of what Nous, ratio, & Logos, still…

— Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

“Most volunteers eventually got pulled away, having to attend to their own lives.  It was understandable, but it left the victim’s family in an…

— Michael C. Grumley

“How does one describe the feelings of a person who has been through something like we had, something no one could ever have envisaged?…

— Alistair Urquhart

“The reason we don’t want to feel is that feeling exposes the tragedy of our world and the darkness of our hearts.”

— Dan Allender

“Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral energy for the present. And the lines are not always clear. In the…

— Howard Zinn

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded…

— Gabrielle Roy

“Dead strangers evoked a smorgasbord of the lesser emotions and served as marvelous educational tools, warnings, and veiled threats. When an acquaintance was killed,…

— Nevada Barr

“I wandered aimlessly through this muddy lane bespattered with blood, fragments of the past detached themselves and floated listlessly before my eyes, taunting me…

— Henry Miller

“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well…

— Susan Sontag

“I was angry about injustice--about the uncaring way the world works. I knew a lot of ordinary people had died that day, not because…

— Terry Hayes

“I did not feel then that I was lonely, that I had come out from the world into a desolate place. I appreciated my…

— H.G. Wells