"When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless."

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Compassion Quotes #Names Quotes #Voice Quotes

“It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.”
“America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!”

Source : The Melting-Pot act 1 (1908). This passage popularized the term melting pot in the sense of an amalgamation of peoples (the jstor database shows that an earlier usage with this meaning occurs in the American Journal of Sociology, July 1906, and a reference to public education as a "melting-pot" for immigrants appears in the Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1891). See Baudouin 1; Jimmy Carter 3; Crevecoeur 1; Ellison 2; Hayward 1; Jesse Jackson 1
“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”

Source : Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1987). “Frank Lloyd Wright: his living voice”, California State University (Fresno)
“China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.”
“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”
“Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.”
“How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?”
“There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.”

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