"I donâ€™t know how to save the world. I donâ€™t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earthâ€™s inhabitants, none of us will surviveâ€”nor will we deserve to."

-- Leonard Peltier

#Mistake Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Past Quotes

“They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.”
“I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. Itâ€™s ever so bourgeois to have two.”
“I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.”

Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.244, A&C Black
“This is why people cry at the movies: because everybodyâ€™s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.”
“But I think the goal of all these attacks is the same, which is to seize maximum media attention. Maybe some of these attacks were meant to be small. Some of them might have been failed larger attacks. And some of them are just part of a new strategy of doing lots of tiny attacks, as opposed to one large one.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Everyone I knew, including my new friends in Jordan, expressed horror at the realities of the Holocaust. But they resented, as I was growing to, how Arabs were cast as the aggressors in the dispute between Israel and the Arab countries, when it was their land that had been seized to resolve a European political problem.”
“Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We donâ€™t belong to her, you know.â€ Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. â€œWell, children all have to belong to somebody,â€ he muttered. â€œDo you belong to someone?â€ â€œThatâ€™s different.â€ â€œBecause youâ€™re a grown-up?”
“When we are weak, we can still be strong. When we're under the greatest stress and facing the greatest challenges, it may be the best day of our lives, for God is working to make us into the people he wants us to be.”

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