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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.

Tutu Desmond

We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
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Community Human Life Myself Person Philosophy
In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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End Generous Joy
I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Myself One Liner
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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Deep Family God Yourself
Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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Break Up Connection Joy Path Relationship Separate
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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Discover Joy Philosophy Possible True Weakness
To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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Children Protect Sex Violence
We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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History Learning Sarcastic
Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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Deep Experience Human Life Live Philosophy Whole
God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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God Philosophy Religious Transform World
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Argument Improvement One Liner Raise Voice Yourself
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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Alone Human Person Relationship
Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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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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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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