"We compound our suffering by victimizing each other."

-- Athol Fugard

#Justice Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Social Justice Quotes

“Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.”
“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.”
“I had a different upbringing - my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn't as easy as they had it.”
“I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.”
“The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.”
“If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.”
“Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.”

Source : Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.65, Zondervan
“Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.”

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