"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."

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John Locke

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely”

Source : "U.N. Refugee Chief: Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis Is 'Lagging Far Behind'". time.com. April 23, 2015.
“Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.”

Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing
“How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)”
“Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.”
“A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.”
“We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.”
“In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.”
“Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true.”

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