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We need other human beings in order to be human.


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There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.



When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.



Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.



Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.



You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.



If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.



Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.



To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.



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.

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.



You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.





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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.



The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.



Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.



The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.



No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation

No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation



You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.



Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.



By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.



Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.



To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.




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