In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. Confucius
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. Confucius
Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
(sadly not satire – it’s the UK today) There are now numerous cases of terminally sick cancer patients being told by the DWP they are unable to receive sickness benefit because they are supposedly ‘fit for work’. The latest victim of the coalition government’s slashing of help and support for…
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, …
In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous. Aristotle
The best thing you’ve got going for you is individuality. Richard Thompson.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr.
Human trafficking is the movement of a person from one place to another into conditions of exploitation, using deception, coercion, the abuse of power or the abuse of someone’s vulnerability. It is possible to be a victim of trafficking even if your consent has been given to being moved. Although human trafficking often involves an …
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. Confucius
We’ll fly high in the sky Where rainbows go by, leave troubles behind We’ll fly high in the sky Girl, just you and I, we’re two of a kind Amen Corner YouTube: Amen Corner – “High In The Sky”
I do not ask for youth, nor for delay in the rising of time’s irreversible river that takes the jewelled arc of the waterfall in which I glimpse, minute by glinting minute, all that I have and all I am always losing as sunlight lights each drop fast, fast falling. I do not dream …
Her love rains down on me easy as the breeze I listen to her breathing, it sounds like the waves on the sea I was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire She could take it back, she might take it back someday …
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” Mary Stuart (Scottish Queen, 1542-1587) Mary, Queen of Scots
I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that’s real The needle tears a hole The old familiar sting Try to kill it all away But I remember everything What have I become My sweetest friend Everyone I know goes away In the end And …
The only people you need in life are the ones that need you in theirs.
Always be a little kinder than necessary. James Matthew Barrie
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. Peter McWilliams
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