"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Inspiring Quotes #Rights Quotes #Racism Quotes

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
“What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.”
“Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has â€˜set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.â€™ After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks.”
“Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.”

Source : "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.
“Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.”
“As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.”
“In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.457, Macmillan
“The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.”

Source : "Changing Concepts of Time". Book by Harold Innis, p. 15, 1952.

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