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“The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking; most people you encounter will be vines. When you are a young plant they are very dangerous.”
God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with such rubbish.
Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell.
It was the administration of the prisoners’ life that was the real crime. It was not unusual for a prisoner to be beaten to death for a comparatively minor infringement of prison rules.
“Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother,”
“When man is brutalized in such a place like this, the smallest sign that someone is worried for him is like a fire on the dark mountain. When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul, clean and lit.”
“That’s the trouble with the things of the devil, they are often tempting and very pretty,”
The photograph captured the exact moment when I understood with conviction that racism is a primary force of evil.
that the Bible is good for the heart and not for the head
In teaching me independence of thought they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child, besides love, and they had given me that also.
That perhaps with my generation the bitterness would pass.
