"Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that."

-- Bono

#Kings Quotes #Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.”
“Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.”
“Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.”
“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”
“Daring to dream means daring to live.”
“Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.”

Source : Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, p.4, Image
“White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of privilege that come with that. So they're shocked when somebody says, 'What just happened is racist,' and they said, 'Oh no, couldn't possibly be.' They see racism as people with KKK gowns and pointy hoods with eyes cut out. And we had those too.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.”

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