Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
ABERJHANIAs living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius
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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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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.
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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