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"If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?"
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"The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation."
"The difficulties of people should be our business."
"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
"When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house."
"Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears."
"Love is not only one of the greatest blessings in your personal life, but when it is extended professionally, the possibilities are endless."
"To demonstrate the deeds of the kingdom is to love and understand the deeds."
"I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it."
"True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty."
"We glorify God when we appreciate humans."
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"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."
"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."
"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."
"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."
"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."
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