Darrell J. Pursiful

Sunday Inspiration: Prejudice

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudice.
—William James

Sunday Inspiration: Poets

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
—Jonas Mekas

Sunday Inspiration: Change

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
—James Baldwin

Sunday Inspiration: Choices

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
—Nelson Mandela

Sunday Inspiration: Forgiveness

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
—Lily Tomlin

Sunday Inspiration: Protest

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
—Elie Wiesel

Sunday Inspiration: Leaders

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

—Octavia E. Butler

Sunday Inspiration: Being Heard

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
—David W. Augsburger

Sunday Inspiration: Food, Cheer, and Song

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
—J. R. R. Tolkien

Sunday Inspiration: Protest

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
—Elie Wiesel

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