"It's good to remember that in crises,..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
More by Maya Angelou
“Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.”
“In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.”
“When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'”
More on Humanity
“"There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."”
“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.”
“Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.”
More on Crisis
“In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.”
“At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.”
“When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”