Rezal Gillies

“Mary Lou Kownacki: “There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“Men may write fictions portraying lowly life as it is, or as it is not—may expatiate with owlish gravity upon the bliss of ignorance—discourse flippantly from arm chairs of the pleasures of slave life; but let them toil with him in the field—sleep with him in the cabin—feed with him on husks; let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love”
― Abdu'l-Bahá

“It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave