"Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth."

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Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

Candace Wheeler

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“No more, no less. I'm an idiot. I really need to let this crush go.”
“Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.”

Source : "Make Bullying History: Stopping Violence Before It Starts" by Mike Honda and Joaquin Phoenix, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.
“You don't need to crave anything, because you are already everything. It's all here, right now.”
“But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth...”

Source : Interview with "Earth First!" in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, June 1999.
“For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. Heâ€™d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.”
“The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.”
“Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness”

Source : Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.15, Harper Collins
“I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.”

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