The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality birth within marriage parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes with all the handicaps of heredity of suffering of psychological complexes and injustices.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Justice turns the scale bringing to some learning through suffering.
Seeing much suffering much and studying much are the three pillars of learning.
Without pain there would be no suffering without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right pain and suffering is the key to all windows without it there is no way of life.
Under the leadership of this President the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create to overcome to endure to transform to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
Suffering it turns out demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
When one takes action for others one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.
Concerning God freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be all that vain men imagine or believe or hope can paint or suffering may achieve we descanted.
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.