Source: On Becoming a Person
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”
Variant: We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”
A Declaration of Independence (12 March 1964) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1148
Variant: We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Context: There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. There can be no workers' solidarity until there is first some racial solidarity. We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.
“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”
“We must accept our pain
Change what we can
and laugh at the rest”
The beauty of wind farms, New Scientist, 20, 2005-04-16, 2007-02-07 http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg18624956.400,
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare-The Old Debate Is New Again, p. 95
“We cannot change the history of the past.”
“No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.”
1960s
