"If I were over full of pity..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
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“Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.”
“A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.”
“The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.”
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“I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.”
“The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.”
“There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.”