“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”
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Source: Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology
Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.
Jean Vanier, From Brokenness to Community, 1992, pp 35-36
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“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”
Source: The Marvelous Land of Oz
Telephone interview with Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org (10 October 2008) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2008/ahtisaari-telephone.html
In reference to the Alabama Council on Human Relations, an organization which was joined by King, whose church's meeting room was used to hold monthly meetings for the Montgomery chapter the council. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)
1950s
Context: Although the Montgomery council never had a large membership, it played an important role. As the only truly interracial group in Montgomery, it served to keep the desperately needed channels of communication open between the races.
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated. In providing an avenue of communication, the council was fulfilling a necessary condition for better race relations in the South.
