“It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread. So, how many more plants are you eating if you eat a pound of beef? Secondly, I've harvested cabbages and pulled up carrots out of the ground and I've been in slaughter-houses and seen the animals have their brains bashed out with sledgehammers and their throats cut - the experiences are not comparable.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 267 of 1106
“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.”
“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
“There come a time, when good man must wear mask.”
“It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.”
“Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.”
“When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.”
“I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.”
“Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies.”
“Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . .”
“Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.”
“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.”
“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”
“When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.”
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
“There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.”
“A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.”
“Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.”
“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.”