"These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness."

-- Anthony de Mello

#Compassion Quotes #Race Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Make your relationships more important than your accomplishments .”
“Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.”
“I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.”
“[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?”
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
“Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.”

Source : Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.”
“In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.”

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