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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live"

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering."

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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
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"And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other."

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