"Charity isn't a good substitute for justice."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Adversity Quotes #Justice Quotes #Charity Quotes

“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyoneâ€™s different needs.”
“Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.262, Allison & Busby Ltd
“The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.”
“Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.”
“It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace.”
“Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.”
“There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.”
“I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.”

Source : "Ezra Miller and Michael Angarano on Going Method and The Stanford Prison Experiment". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. July 20, 2015.

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