S > S's Quotes

“Compassion,” Susan Sontag famously declared, “is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
― Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border

“If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream