If this life is a desert, it is our duty to make an oasis in it; if this life is a shipwreck, we must rescue as many as we can, and not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Peter Gay
Hat tip: John P. Weiss and Quote Investigator.
If this life is a desert, it is our duty to make an oasis in it; if this life is a shipwreck, we must rescue as many as we can, and not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Peter Gay
Hat tip: John P. Weiss and Quote Investigator.
Happy are those who work for peace…
I will sing for people who might not sing for me.
I will sing for people who are not my family.I will sing honor songs for the unfamiliar and new.
I will visit a different church and pray in a different pew.I will silently sit and carefully listen to new stories
About other people’s tragedies and glories.I will not assume my pain and joy are better.
I will not claim my people invented gravity or weather.And, oh, I know I will still feel my rage and rage and rage
But I won’t act like I’m the only person onstage.I am one more citizen marching against hatred.
Alone, we are defenseless. Collected, we are sacred.
I can’t stand by and do nothing.
The best investment any of us can ever make is in the lives of others.
Bill and Melinda Gates
I want my friends to understand that being “sick of politics” is privilege in action. Your privilege allows you to live a non-political existence. Your wealth, your race, your abilities or your gender allows you to live a life in which you likely will not be a target of bigotry, attacks, deportation, or genocide. You don’t want to get political, you don’t want to fight because your life and safety are not at stake.
It’s hard and exhausting to bring up issues of oppression (aka “get political”). The fighting is tiring. I get it. Self-care is essential. But if you find politics annoying and you just want everyone to be nice, please know that people are literally fighting for their lives and safety. You might not see it, but that’s what privilege does.
Dear family, I would like this on my tombstone: "She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted." pic.twitter.com/EOdbtoyAkv
— Bethany (@buffyro) February 9, 2017
High praise, indeed. :-)
I have been going through my older quote posts and either adding or updating images, then dribbling them out to my friends on Facebook. Here are a few of the recent ones.
Here are links to the original posts:
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
“Palmer Joss” in the novel Contact by Carl Sagan