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@kazani
Best quote recently:
When you kick a hornet's nest, it's the hornets which decide when it's over.
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"The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away."
- Leland Val Van De Wall
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"You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Netochka Nezvanova
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@niloofarmd
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
~Martin Luther King Jr.
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@niloofarmd
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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@krish123
One thing I keep reminding myself:
nothing is permanent
whether it’s positive or negative.
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@niloofarmd
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
~ William Faulkner
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@bribe
“Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”
― ram dass
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@icetoad.eth
Happy birthday, MLK Jr! He would be 97 today...
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final essay, A Testament of Hope:
"People are often surprised to learn that I am an optimist. They know how often I have been jailed, how frequently the days and nights have been filled with frustration and sorrow, how bitter and dangerous are my adversaries. They expect these experiences to harden me into a grim and desperate man.
They fail, however, to perceive the sense of affirmation generated by the challenge of embracing struggle and surmounting obstacles. They have no comprehension of the strength that comes from faith in God and man.
It is possible for me to falter, but I am profoundly secure in my knowledge that God loves us; he has not worked out a design for our failure. Man has the capacity to do right as well as wrong, and his history is a path upward, not downward.
The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to man’s blunders but to his capacity to overcome them. While it is a bitter fact that in America in 1968, I am denied equality solely because I am black, yet I am not a chattel slave. Millions of people have fought thousands of battles to enlarge my freedom; restricted as it still is, progress has been made.
This is why I remain an optimist, though I am also a realist, about the barriers before us. Why is the issue of equality still so far from solution in America, a nation that professes itself to be democratic, inventive, hospitable to new ideas, rich, productive and awesomely powerful?
The problem is so tenacious because, despite its virtues and attributes, America is deeply racist and its democracy is flawed both economically and socially. All too many Americans believe justice will unfold painlessly or that its absence for black people will be tolerated tranquilly. Justice for black people will not flow into society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory. Nor will a few token changes quell all the tempestuous yearnings of millions of disadvantaged black people.
White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo."
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@kazani
A society that discourages critical thinking is a society that invites its own destruction.
https://x.com/i/status/2012193826765701325
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