"Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder."

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Source : "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

Karen Dawn

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“If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2016). “Collected Columns”, p.111, Faber & Faber
“Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.”
“Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1971). “Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, p.60, Manchester University Press
“Judging others will avail you nothing and injure you spiritually. Only if you can inspire others to judge themselves will anything worthwhile have been accomplished. When you approach others in judgment they will be on the defensive. When you are able to approach them in a kindly, loving manner without judgment they will tend to judge themselves and be transformed.”
“Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.”
“If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.”
“Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.”

Source : Dean Young (1999). “First Course in Turbulence”
“One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.114, Rowman & Littlefield

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