Majda

“Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven’t earned it, who haven’t even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“أمي كانت شيئا آخر لا يشبه إلا لنفسه ، لا مقابل له .
يصعب علي أن أحدد إشراقها وأن أصنع لها صورة كاملة . شمسنا قاسية ، ولا أحد يستطيع أن يواجه حرقتها مفتوح العينين ، أمي كانت تفعل ذلك كلما اشتهت أن تبكي أو أن تستثير غيرة الشمس . الشيء الوحيد الذي ظل صافيا فيها ولم تقهره الأيام عيناها .”
― واسيني الأعرج, طوق الياسمين

“Look beyond what you see.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. I desperately wanted mercy for Jimmy Dill and would have done anything to create justice for him, but I couldn’t pretend that his struggle was disconnected from my own. The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connected us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption