Gabi Clayton's favorite quotes: K-M

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Karen Kain	Racism is not something we are born with, but is learned. It is based in ignorance and insecurity and limits all humanity. By speaking out against racist behaviour, we can begin to erode these learned prejudices and embrace our diversity as is our true nature.
Danny Kaye	Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Helen Keller	Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
Helen Keller	I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller	Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller	The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Keller	Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller	It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy	Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy	The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy 1964 article: Through a Brother's Eyes ~ Time Magazine	If there is a lesson from his life and from his death, it is that in this world of ours none of us can afford to be lookers-on, the critics standing on the sidelines.
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy	Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Kenyan prayer # 597 in The United Methodist Hymnal	From the cowardice that dares not face new truth From the laziness that is contented with half truth From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me.
Coretta Scott King	Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job. For too long, our nation has tolerated the insidious form of discrimination against this group of Americans who have worked as hard as any group, paid their taxes like everyone else, and yet have been denied equal protection under the law.
Coretta Scott King	I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Coretta Scott King	Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group."
Coretta Scott King	Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement, Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions
Coretta Scott King	We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say “common struggle” because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.
Coretta Scott King	We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community
Coretta Scott King	For too long, our nation has tolerated the insidious form of discrimination against this group of Americans, who have worked as hard as any other group, paid their taxes like everyone else, and yet have been denied equal protection under the law.... I believe that freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. My husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” On another occasion he said, “I have worked too long and hard against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern. Justice is indivisible.” Like Martin, I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. So I see this bill as a step forward for freedom and human rights in our country and a logical extension of the Bill of Rights and the civil rights reforms of the 1950’s and ‘60’s. The great promise of American democracy is that no group of people will be forced to suffer discrimination and injustice.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	We shall overcome, because the arc of a moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his first speech to the Montgomery Improvement Association - 1955	We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience. We have sometimes given our white brothers the feeling that we liked the way we were being treated. But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. excerpted "The Most Durable Power", a sermon delivered on 11/ 6/56 in Montgomery, Alabama	As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. excerpted from "Loving Your Enemies", a sermon delivered on 11/ 17/57 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama	I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this is at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn't cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. Somebody must have religion enough and morality enough to cut it off, and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wall Street Journal, 11/13/62	It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 1963	You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling, for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent-resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, we must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 1963	Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 1963	We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant 'Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 1963	Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 1963	We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 1963	So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremist for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength To Love, 1963	Courage, the determination not to be overwhelmed by any object, however frightful, enables us to stand up to any fear. Many of our fears are not mere snakes under the carpet. Trouble is a reality in this strange medley of life, dangers lurk within the circumference of every action, accidents do occur, bad health is an ever-threatening possibility, and death is a stark, grim, and inevitable fact of human experience. Evil and pain in this conundrum of life are close to each of us, and we do both ourselves and our neighbors a great disservice when we attempt to prove that there is nothing in this world of which we should be frightened. These forces that threaten to negate life must be challenged by courage, which is the power of life to affirm itself in spite of life's ambiguities. This requires the exercise of a creative will that enables us to hew out a stone of hope from a mountain of despair. Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is the submissive surrender to circumstance. Courage faces fear and thereby masters it cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength To Love, 1963	Like an unchecked cancer, that corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity, hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, not establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater but you do not murder hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963	The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964	I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967	Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the Vietnam War, 1967	A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time is now.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Riverside Church, New York City April 4, 1967	I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	That old law which says an eye-for-an eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth will eventually leave everybody blind and toothless.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Cowardice asks, is it safe? Expediency asks, is it politic? Vanity asks, is it popular? But conscience asks, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him, it is right.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" to serve. You don't have to know the Second Theory of Thermal Dynamics in Physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love, and you can be that servant.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that the edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Even a superficial look at history reveals that no social advance rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle, the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings Unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible - we have it all, or we are not free.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution " 3/31/68	We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1964	Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, “Too late.” There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. “The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on…” We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos and community.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his "Beyond Vietnam" speech about Vietnam at Riverside Church New York City on April 4, 1967	I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government
Martin Luther King III August 2003, at the 40th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington	Homophobia is hate, and hate has no place in the beloved community.
Welcome to The Beloved Community The Beloved Community of Martin Luther King, Jr. from The King Center	“The Beloved Community” is a term that was first coined in the early days of the 20^th century by the philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce, who founded the Fellowship of Reconciliation. However, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., also a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, who popularized the term and invested it with a deeper meaning which has captured the imagination of people of good will all over the world. For Dr. King, The Beloved Community was not a lofty utopian goal to be confused with the rapturous image of the Peaceable Kingdom, in which lions and lambs coexist in idyllic harmony. Rather, The Beloved Community was for him a realistic, achievable goal that could be attained by a critical mass of people committed to and trained in the philosophy and methods of nonviolence. Dr. King’s Beloved Community is a global vision, in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger and homelessness will not be tolerated because international standards of human decency will not allow it. Racism and all forms of discrimination, bigotry and prejudice will be replaced by an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood. In the Beloved Community, international disputes will be resolved by peaceful conflict-resolution and reconciliation of adversaries, instead of military power. Love and trust will triumph over fear and hatred. Peace with justice will prevail over war and military conflict. Dr. King’s Beloved Community was not devoid of interpersonal, group or international conflict. Instead he recognized that conflict was an inevitable part of human experience. But he believed that conflicts could be resolved peacefully and adversaries could be reconciled through a mutual, determined commitment to nonviolence. No conflict, he believed, need erupt in violence. And all conflicts in The Beloved Community should end with reconciliation of adversaries cooperating together in a spirit of friendship and goodwill. As early as 1956, Dr. King spoke of The Beloved Community as the end goal of nonviolent boycotts. As he said in a speech at a victory rally following the announcement of a favorable U.S. Supreme Court Decision desegregating the seats on Montgomery’s busses, “the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the Beloved Community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends. It is this type of understanding goodwill that will transform the deep gloom of the old age into the exuberant gladness of the new age. It is this love which will bring about miracles in the hearts of men.”
Stephen King	The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever yours secret heart it buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within, not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.
Ben Kingsley	You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.
Ben Kingsley	I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.
Barbara Kingsolver	The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Larry Kramer from 'You Can Never Not Fight Back!' A conversation with Larry Kramer about the current state of gay activism by Alisa Solomon in the Village Voice December 15 - 21, 2004	You can never not fight back. You can't give them an inch. So what if they're attacking us? You don't run back into the closet. I was appalled when I heard the idea dribbling out that we should pull back instead of carrying on or pressing even more. My favorite expression is: You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!
	It seems to me lobbyists are there to represent the people, not sell out the people. "Bargain" is the wrong word. If you have power, you go in and say what you want. They listen to you or not. You go in and be angry. If they don't like it, tough. What are they going to do to you? They can't do anything worse than what they're already doing.
	It's what every single speech I've ever made comes down to: Where are we? Where is everybody? Everyone is invisible. Even though so many of us are out of the closet, we're still invisible. Don't people know how to speak up?
	The whole culture isn't being led to the gas chambers! And I use that analogy with full knowledge of what I'm saying. I really think they are out to completely eliminate us and to destroy us. It's becoming clearer and clearer. I finally got scientists and bureaucrats at the NIH to admit their intentionality in not doing anything about AIDS. Between 1981 and 1985, nothing was done. Every gay man who had sex without a condom got exposed. They knew it. That's hate. That's people who want to get rid of us. And we refuse to see that.
	I didn't know what we were going to do when I said we've got to do something. You can't know in advance. You have to get together and talk. You have to find out: What do you want to do? What are you capable of? What do you dream of doing? It's all about dreams. We have to stop making it sound so clinical.
	You can list all kinds of reasons for why it's not easy, but you gotta wake up and smell the coffee. They're coming after us. Big time.
	One thing I learned in GMHC and ACT UP is that after a while it's pointless to ask the question "why?" There are a million whys. You just gotta take each day and react to the pile of shit they dish you out that day. You go after it. You cope with today's emergency. That's why you can't be too much of a bureaucracy. You've got to be able to be loose and deal with the issues on a daily basis.
	There's my favorite line, I use over and over, from a Brazilian reporter who saw one of our more feeble ACT UP demonstrations outside City Hall, and she said, "You call that a demonstration? In my country, when they raise the bus fare we burn the buses!" I have no idea why there hasn't been more civil disobedience, guerrilla tactics. The Right uses guerrilla tactics all over the place in the guise of think tanks. What I'm slowly beginning to sniff and to encourage is that some of the richer gays with their foundations are beginning to talk among themselves about what they can do with their money. They're generous, but they're safe-generous, and it's time not to play everything so safe.
	I don't know how to say this without sounding like a shit: It's about money, pure and simple. That's the reality of it all. We're not going to change the world by asking everybody to think of poor people. It's never worked that way, even though that's the way it should work. And it's quite right to say all of these things because they are, indeed, true. But when it comes right down to it, it's about power, and power is money. Money buys you the power, and power gets you the rights. The hope is that will include poor people. You've got to keep your eye on the prize.
	ACT UP changed the world: The drugs are now out there because kids, most of whom are now dead, went out and put their bodies on the line and changed history. Why can't we continue to do it?
Jiddu Krishnamurti	It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross	People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Maggie Kuhn	Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -- even if your voice shakes.
Maggie Kuhn	Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Maggie Kuhn	Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Maggie Kuhn	When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
Maggie Kuhn	Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
Mercedes Lackey The Black Gryphon	A neat and orderly living space is the sign of a dangerously sick mind.
Anne Lamott (in Traveling Mercies; although in Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life she attributes this quote to "my priest friend Tom")	You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott	My faith has been so challenged because I feel such a deep hatred and sense of betrayal as an American by the Bush administration. And yet Jesus said about four things that are absolutely the core of Christianity, and one of them is you really don't get to hate anyone.
Anne Lamott	If Jesus does not have a sense of humor, I am so doomed that none of this matters anyway.
Ann Landers	The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Lynn Lavner	The bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
Emma Lazarus	Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
Mary Lou Leavitt American Quaker writer and peace advocate	Living out a witness to peace has to do with everyday choices about the work we do, the relationships we build, what part we take in politics, what we buy, how we raise our children. It is a matter of fostering relationships and structures—from personal to international—which are strong and healthy enough to contain conflict when it arises and allow its creative resolution.
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird	I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Madeleine L'Engle Walking on Water	We are hurt; we are lonely; and we turn to music or words, and as compensation beyond all price we are given glimpses of the world on the other side of time and space. We all have glimpses of glory as children, and as we grow up we forget them, or are taught to think we made them up; they couldn't possibly have been real, because to most of us who are grown up, reality is like radium, and can be borne only in very small quantities. But we are meant to be real, and to see and recognize the real. We are all more than we know, and that wondrous reality, that wholeness, holiness, is there for all of us, not the qualified only.
Ursula K. Le Guin	Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time, made new.
John Lennon	Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans.
Gerda Lerner in this interview	Each person has to find his or her own way of action. I don't believe that we need to identify ourselves as belonging to a large organized group in order to work for a more just society. Some may content themselves with working on the prison system in the U.S. Others may work on inequities in education. There are hundreds of causes you can deal with. But the most important thing, the thing I have always lived by, is that you must be engaged in some way in the world in which you live. How, is for each person to choose.
Stephen Levine	If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
C.S. Lewis	Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis	There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
C.S. Lewis	If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: If you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.
Audre Lorde	Without community there is no liberation.
Audre Lorde	When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde	It is not our differences that divide us. it is our inability to recognize, accept & celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde	When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Audre Lorde	Silence has never brought us anything of worth
Audre Lorde After someone said to her that poetry is a luxury:	For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Audre Lorde	I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde	If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde	When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde A Litany for Survival	And when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.
Audre Lorde	If we wait until we are unafraid to speak, we will be speaking from our graves.
Audre Lorde Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches	Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches	What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make them your own, until you sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our need for language.
Audre Lorde Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches	The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
Audre Lorde	It's not our differences that divide us, it is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches	Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
Audre Lorde	We are powerful because we have survived.
Audre Lorde	There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
Audre Lorde	Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gay men is a Black issue because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression... I know I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot afford to believe that, freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.
James Madison	Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the Freedom of the People by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Mr. Toaster Madness	I fear, more than anything on this earth, that my time to stand will come and I will choose to sit. I will choose not to hold my ground but will leave quietly, too afraid to speak. I pray to god this never happens.
Leonard Matlovich U.S. Air Force sergeant	They gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.
Armistead Maupin	My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
Nelson Mandela	Vision without action is merely dreaming. Action with no vision is just passing time. But with vision and action you can change the world.
Nelson Mandela	If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Edwin Markham	He drew a circle that shut me out -- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
Edwin Markham	To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
Abraham Maslow	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Rollo May Existential Psychology	There is no such thing as truth or reality for a living human being except as he participates in it, is conscious of it, has some relationship to it.
David A. McIntee Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures - The Shadow of Weng-Chiang	Just because something is not possible does not mean it can't be done -- especially by someone who doesn't know any better.
Margaret Mead	Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Bernard Meltzer	A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Thomas Merton	I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.
Edna St. Vincent Millay	Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Henry Miller	Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Angela Monet	Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Paul Monette Last Watch of the Night (1994)	Take your easy tears somewhere else. Tell yourself none of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop. With whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword or it is nothing.
Paul Monette Last Watch of the Night (1994)	Grief is madness -- ask anyone who's been there. They will tell you it abates with time, but that's a lie. What drowns you in the first year is a force of solitude and helplessness exactly equal in intensity to the love you had for the one who's gone. Equally passionate, equally intimate. The spaces between the stabs of pain grow longer after a while, but they're empty spaces.
Paul Monette	No one will find the way out of hate and violence unless we do. Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.
Marilyn Monroe in her last interview with the press	What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.
Mark Morford My Baby Has Rainbow Hair Gay parents, solo moms, sperm-swappin' friends. It's alternative-family bliss! Or is it?	There is no ideal family structure and quit pointing to your Bible before you hurt yourself -- rule No. 1 in all matters reproductive: Never trust musty dogmatic mythology written by angry old men who never had sex. Duh. We do know one thing. There are only a few key ingredients that work every single time. They are: stability, deep love, laughter, honest communication, solid boundaries, human kindness, balance and chocolate ice cream. That's about it. There is only the impulse to love and connect and carry on. And maybe, now and then, a good hot bath.
Mother Teresa	The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one’s neighbor who lives at the roadside assaulted by exploitation, corruption, poverty and disease.
Mother Teresa	Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa	If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa	At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.' Hungry not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection.
Mother Teresa	People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.
Mother Teresa	Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents; parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
Muslim Proverb	Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
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Note - some of these quotes are from Andi Lipman's site at http://www.andilipman.com/index.html