"True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer."

-- A. Powell Davies

#Rights Quotes #Principles Quotes #Disbelievers Quotes

“Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.”
“All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.”

Source : H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”
“That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.”

Source : "The Chronicles of Amber: Knight of Shadows". Book by Roger Zelazny, Chapter 3 (p. 63), 1989.
“Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.”
“Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.”

Source : Gruber Foundation, Women's Rights Prize, 2009.
“The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.”

Source : Marcus Rediker (2007). “The Slave Ship: A Human History”, p.13, Penguin
“It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.”
“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

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