"When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too."

-- Bayard Rustin

#Inspirational Love Quotes #Children Quotes #Men Quotes

“Man's best candle is his understanding.”
“If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you.”
“The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.”
“I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.”

Source : "Kindle or Kindling?" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2009.
“Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.”
“We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.”
“I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God”
“That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.”

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.161, Random House

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