"Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others."

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Source : Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next?: A Memoir Toward World Peace”

Walter Mosley

#Freedom Quotes #Rights Quotes #Ability Quotes

“To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!”
“PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.”
“I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.”
“A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.”
“According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.”
“Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of SpiritÂ at work.”
“We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.”
“The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.”

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