"The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Rights Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“In some states, it is illegal to turn down a same-sex couple when you're placing children for adoption. That's discrimination. But in the Catholic church, the sacrament of marriage is defined officially as the union of a man and a woman. So a Catholic adoption agency is torn between its faith doctrine and what it sees as a faith obligation to help orphans.”
“God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”

Source : Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1775). “The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...”, p.125
“Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.”
“How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.”
“People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.”
“I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.”
“One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!”

Source : Preface to his book "Oriental Adventures", 1985.
“One thing youâ€™ll say for skeletons, theyâ€™ll always give you a smile.”

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