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"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."
"If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us."
"I've learned not to be surprised by what people do no more."
"You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets."
"This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
"You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness."
"I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions."
"The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray."
"As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism."
"The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours."
"The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat."
"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
"I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living."
"People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression."
"It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why."
"The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people."
"I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)"
"Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you"
"Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment."
"At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE."
