1960s, Special message to Congress on the right to vote (1965)
Context: In our system, the first right and most vital of all our fights is the right to vote. Jefferson described the elective franchise as "the ark of our safety." It is from the exercise of this right that the guarantee of all our other rights flows. Unless the right to vote be secure and undenied, all other rights are insecure and subject to denial for all our citizens. The challenge to this right is a challenge to America itself. We must meet this challenge as decisively as we would meet a challenge mounted against our land from enemies abroad.
“All disturbances and challenges rise not only from our relationship with others, but in our attitude to all other things and beings.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
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Chinmayananda Saraswati 118
Indian spiritual teacher 1916–1993Related quotes
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Original: (zh-CN) 学习有两种态度。一种是教条主义的态度,不管我国情况,适用的和不适用的,一起搬来。这种态度不好。另一种态度,学习的时候用脑筋想一下,学那些和我国情况相适合的东西,即吸取对我们有益的经验,我们需要的是这样一种态度
Source: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Nine, But Who Watches The Dog?, p. 211
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Context: If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.
Source: Textual politics: Discourse and social dynamics, 1995, p. 1
“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
Source: Source https://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/11121999/prilozi.htm (1999)