"We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating."

-- Jesse Jackson

#Thinking Quotes #White Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.”
“My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.”
“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”

Source : "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)
“Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.”

Source : FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Mar 18, 2013
“I now realize that a broken back, failed surgery, and Stage IV cancer are three of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Three of the most positive, transformative things that ever happened to me. They helped me become a vastly better person than I ever was, and I am eternally grateful for that.”
“There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.”
“Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.”
“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”

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