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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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