Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
TUTU DESMONDMuch depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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When we see others as separate, they become a threat. When we see others as part of us, as connected, as interdependent, then there is no challenge we cannot face—together.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
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