“Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.”
― Black Like Me
― Black Like Me
“Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?”
― Black Like Me
― Black Like Me
“for so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man’s good intentions toward his fellow man.”
― Black Like Me
― Black Like Me
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