“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both”
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“I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance.”
― Sing You Home
― Sing You Home
“Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.”
― God Speaks in Many Tongues: Meditate with Joan Chittister
― God Speaks in Many Tongues: Meditate with Joan Chittister
“Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.”
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“I know there’s something troubling you. I’m not going to ask what it is, if you don’t want to tell me. But remember that I’m your mother. Nothing you say could ever shock me or make me love you less.”
― The Forgotten Warrior
― The Forgotten Warrior
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