It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Quote by James Arthur Baldwin

Topics: Freedom Quotes, Liberty Quotes

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want...

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want...

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it...

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it...

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets,...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets,...

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of...

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of...

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and...

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love...

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love...

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the...

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the...

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be...

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be...

Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it...

Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it...

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is...

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is...