"It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity."

-- Cesar Chavez

#Opportunity Quotes #Giving Quotes #Justice Quotes

“We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just "I have a dream." They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.”
“The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.”
“Never write more than two pages on any subject.”
“The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.”

Source : "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".
“Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”
“A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.”

Source : "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.
“Weâ€™ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the same time, we can bring in a touch of humor now and again. If the time ever comes when we canâ€™t smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.”
“I cry to let everything out”

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