Thoughts To
Ponder
"As part of our
involvement and commitment to Abington
Township's No Place For Hate Program,
we present the following thoughts on hate
for your consideration:"
1. "If we
have no peace, it is because we have
forgotten we belong to each other"
- Mother
Teresa
2.
"You must be the change you wish to see in
the world."
- Mahatma
Gandhi
3.
"The mind of the bigot is like the
pupil of the eye; the more light you pour
upon it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver
Wendell Homes
4. "Racism is a learned
affliction and anything that is learned can
be unlearned."
- Jane
Elliott
5. "I let no
man drag me down so low as to make me hate
him."
- Booker T.
Washington
6.
"Hate is like a cancer. It doesn't
matter if you have a little cancer or a lot
of cancer - it's still cancer.'·
- Unknown
7. "We may have different
religions, different languages, different
colored skin, but we all belong to one human
race. We all share the same basic values."
- Kofi Annan
8.
"I swore never to be silent whenever
and wherever human beings endure suffering
and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the
victim. Silence encourages the tormentor,
never the tormented."
- Elie
Wiesel
9.
"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."
- Voltaire
10.
"Remember, to hate, to be violent, is
demeaning. It means you're afraid of the
other side of the coin to love and be
loved."
- James
Baldwin
11.
"As long as you keep a person down,
some part of you has to be down there to
hold him down, so it means you cannot soar
as you otherwise might."
- Marian
Anderson
12. "The
less secure a man is, the more likely he is to
have extreme prejudice."
- Clint Eastwood
13.
"If civilization is to survive, we must
cultivate the science of human relationships -
the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to
live together, in the same world, at peace."
- Franklin D.
Roosevelt
14.
"If there is right in the soul, there
will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty
in the person, there will be harmony in the
home. If there is hamony in the home, there will
be peace in the world."
- Chinese
Proverb
15,
"Where, after all, do universal human rights
begin? In small places, close to home - so close
and so small that they cannot be seen on any
maps of the world. Unless these rights have
meaning there, they have little meaning
anywhere,"
- Eleanor
Roosevelt
16. "I
will write peace on your wings and you will fly
all over the world,"
-Sadako Sasaki
17.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only
light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that."
- Martin Luther
King, Jr.
18. "A
child's life is like a piece of paper on which
every passerby leaves a mark."
- Chinese
proverb
19. "We are all
bound up together in one great bundle of
humanity."
- Frances E. W.
Harper
20.
"In Germany they first came for the
communists and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade
unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I
didn't speak up because I was a Protestant."
Then they came for me ... and by that time no
one was left to speak up."
- Martin
Niemoller
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