We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
TUTU DESMONDA very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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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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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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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 must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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