“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 69 of 783
“If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.”
“Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.”
“Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”
“Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.”
“My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.”
“The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.”
“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”
“Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it...and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we're from, or what we look like, or who we love.”
“What Habitat does is much more than just sheltering people. It’s what it does for people on the inside. It’s that intangible quality of hope. Many people without decent housing consider themselves life’s losers. This is the first victory they may have ever had. And it changes them. We see Habitat homeowners go back to school and get their GEDs, enter college, do all kinds of things they never believed they could do before they moved into their house. By their own initiative, through their own pride and hope, they change.”
“There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.”
“The bud of victory is always in the truth.”
“The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”
“Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'”
“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
“We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run by one person. We are going to accelerate the process of democratization and I think that is the biggest opportunity for Congress party because that is the DNA of the Congress”
“This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.”