#confront

[Saying] No to racial injustice means a call to look our own bigotry straight in the eye, and No to world hunger calls upon us to recognize our own lack of poverty. No to war requires us to come to terms with our own violence and aggression, and no to oppression and torture forces us to deal directly with our own insensitivities. And so all our No's become challenges to purify our own hearts. In this sense, confrontation always includes self-confrontation. (p. 123-124) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#confrontation #poverty #racism #self-confrontation #war

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#elite #european #i #like #living

Terror must never be allowed as a means for political confrontation. ↗

— Klaus Kinkel

#confrontation #means #must #never #political

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work! ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#aspects #choose #come #confront #does

Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#confrontation #diet #excess #issues #negativity

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most. ↗

— David Archuleta

#fear #life-lessons #overcoming #scary #life

We cannot suffer with the poor when we are unwilling to confront those persons and systems that cause poverty. We cannot set the captives free when we do not want to confront those who carry the keys. We cannot profess our solidarity with those who are oppressed when we are unwilling to confront the oppressor. Compassion without confrontation fades quickly to fruitless sentimental commiseration. (p. 122) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#confrontation #oppression #poverty #poverty

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#been #confront #deplorable #exposure #get

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#circumstances #confronting #does #him #justice

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#core #crime #criminal #evil #hypocrite