Inspirational words to live by

Some of my favorite quotes

‘I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of brotherhood and peace can never become a reality…I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word’

-Martin Luther King

‘You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what is happening in Africa and, if we were honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else’

-Paul David Hewson (Bono)

‘The traveller is active – he goes strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive – he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing’.

-Daniel J. Boorstin

 The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

-John F. Kennedy