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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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 man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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