#rot

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#broadened #brotherhood #into #live #narrowed

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#away #become #fall #flesh #gone

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#basic #brother #conversion #fact #gives

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#different #different way #i #schizophrenic #seeing

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#carried #flag #i #i believe #i believe that

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. ↗

— June Jordan

#brother #brother and sister #choke #down #habits

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#away #father #grave #hand #him

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#around #basketball #brothers #contests #could

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math. ↗

— William Joyce

#autobiographical #bad #billy #booger #book

Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing them to do just that. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#family #life #protect #shelter #family