#iona

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. -Thom Merrilin ↗

— Robert Jordan

#forgiveness

Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things. Otani: What's that? Nakao: The whispering of your heart. ↗

— Heikichi Nakao Otani

#forgiveness #inspirational #forgiveness

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#fairness #feminism #freedom-of-choice #inspirational #truth

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#freedom

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#freedom

The function of freedom is to free someone else. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#responsibility #freedom

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#freedom #human-rights #inspirational #justice #peace

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#inspirational #freedom

Music, my rampart and my only one. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#inspirational #music #rampart #freedom

Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be. ↗

— Alice Steinbach

#profound #freedom