"I love helping other people. When I made a commitment to stay in the South, to work for change, it meant devoting my life to working for and helping others. I feel good when I know that I've saved someone's farm, or helped a family to get a home or access to credit. Or when I can get young people to see that there's more to life than just trying to make the biggest dollar for yourself."

-- Shirley Sherrod

#Home Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Helping Others Quotes

“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.”
“You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?”
“I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline”
“The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question.”

Source : "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind".
“A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.”
“No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.”
“In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.”

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