“When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all of their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all of their high places. Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. ” (Numbers 33:51-53)
“We have no one to go to for help. Not even a church. Anything goes, now that our President Roosevelt signed the order to get rid of us. How can he do this to his own citizens? No lawyer has the courage to defend us. Caucasian friends stay away for fear of being labeled “Jap lovers.” There’s not a more lonely feeling than to be banished by my own country. There’s no place to go.”
― ( Kiyo Sato, Kiyo’s Story: A Japanese-American Family’s Quest for the American Dream)
“Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!”
― (Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Watchwords)
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” – (James Baldwin)
“It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.” – (Simone Weil)