"God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them."

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Source : Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

Emanuel Cleaver

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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
“Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”
“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.”
“Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.”
“The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.”
“To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned. Of course, no one actually wants to suffer, to be sick, to be cold or hungry - but as long as we continue to indulge in wrong doing we will never put an end to suffering. Likewise, we will never achieve happiness, except through positive deeds, words, and thoughts. Positive action is something we have to cultivate ourselves; it can be neither bought nor stolen, and no one ever stumbles on it just by chance.”
“And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things, the moments and the others. Still with me are all the dead persons who I loved, all the friends who turned away, all the happy days that faded. I lost nothing but the illusion that everything could be mine forever.”

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