"... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?"

-- June Jordan

#Heart Quotes #Careers Quotes #Community Quotes

“At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as a Christian leader I deeply respect your faith and believe that our common duty is to extend the hand of friendship, and to build bridges not walls.”

Source : "Archbishop of Canterbury: 'Build bridges, not walls'". www.anglicannews.org. September 24, 2001.
“So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.”
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70
“Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so.”
“The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.”

Source : Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.36, Open Road Media
“I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.”
“One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior.”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
“Pop music will never be low brow.”

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