“Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.”

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion – cools your fears with peace.

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As goes love so goes life.

The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

Dare to love yourself

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.

While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,

Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action.

In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––

The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’

The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

Take any important issue of our time – Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race,

Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.