"To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself."

-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Leadership Quotes #People Quotes #Different Quotes

“I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.”
“Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.”
“When in doubt...shoe it out.”
“If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child”
“After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!”
“O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.”

Source : Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”
“I don't know how we can fix a world where people have been so convinced that they are doing the right thing out of compassion and love and trying to help people, when it is absolute poison, when it is absolutely destructive.”

Source : "I've transcribed Matt Dillahunty's beautiful rant on The Atheist Experience 696 for your reading pleasure. Most likely a gigantic waste of time, but someone might have a use for it". Interview on "The Atheist Experience", rebrn.com. February 13, 2011.
“Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.”

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