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“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.”
― Excursions, Poems and Familiar Letters V2
― Excursions, Poems and Familiar Letters V2
“Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.”
― Einstein’s Dreams
― Einstein’s Dreams
“See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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