Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
ABERJHANIThe literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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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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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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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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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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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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As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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