""Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality - a God-given force - be they brought about by the State or other individuals, must be relentlessly opposed in the spirit of defiance shown by St. Peter when he said to the rulers of his day: "Shall we obey God or man?""

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Source : "The Road to Freedom is via the Cross". Book by Albert Lutuli, 1952.

Albert Lutuli

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“I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“I dont do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.”
“In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company
“The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.”

Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.11, Harper Collins
“Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.”
“Google is a place filled with open-minded, innovative people from all over the world. It's a fun place to work, and it's a place where different kinds of skills come together. As we grew from a startup, I remember our founders saying that people don't want us to change our culture, but we need to keep making it better. It's an attitude: "We are the ones we've been waiting for." Silicon Valley in general, tech in general, means using technology to solve big problems in the world.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.”
“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.”

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