“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It’s the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”
– Frederick Buechner
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change
it, change the way you think about it.”
– Mary Engelbreit
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”
– Bob Marley
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
– Henry Ford
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'”
– Fred Rogers
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
– Marie Curie