If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.
My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.
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