Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 109
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“They'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed — I, too, am America.”
“I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.”
“I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me.”
“I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.”
“I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.”
“It's not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age.”
“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it.”
“What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.”
“Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.”
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”
“Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.”
“I believe that none can 'save' his fellow man by making a choice for him.”