Courage of the few against the many

I wonder how much courage it takes for an individual to belong to a pack of wolves or to a lynch-mob

(Ask the Facebook crowd).

Atticus Finch

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

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Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

The Gospel According to John, chapter 8, verse 7

let him who is without sin cast the first stone

The Gospel According to John, chapter 8, verse 7



Those who call others racist are sometimes the most racist of all.

How do we believe (what we believe)

People will not believe what they don't want to believe, even if the evidence is front and center.

In fact, they will kill the messenger rather than reflect on whether the message might even be partly true.

-anonymous

Whosoever saves one life

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world 

entire.”

― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

I am thinking of animal life here.

How precious it is.

Telling the truth

I can't tell the truth if you're going beat the shit out of me if I do.

-Anonymous

You wouldn't know.

You wouldn't know.

(Lily H., not Jerome Kern)

dessein de l'interieur d'une coupe ou est representee Cassandre 440 B.C.E. (Louvre)

You wouldn't know that African-Americans were so heroic if you spent any time waiting for a bus in Seattle on 3rd Avenue between Pike and Pine.

-Lily H.

Quel destin attend-t-on?

Le 23 mai 1498, Jérôme Savonarole est pendu et brûlé à Florence, sur la place de la Seigneurie.