TheGreatCompromise

Creating awareness around modern slavery and advocating for the most vulnerable minority - the individual - by promoting the idea that the best way to protect one's human rights is to secure those human rights for everyone.

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Jan 10

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” Martin Luther King Jr. (via dagestaniprincess)

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Oct 10

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.”

Kent Nerburn (via keepyourselfaware)

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Sep 30

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.” John Lennon (via disobey)

Aug 30

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Aug 23

Let us not teach them the language of aggression. Let us not teach them obedience through force and threats of violence. Let that language die with us. That voice they hear in their head someday will be the one you use today. Therefore, show them the language of peace and reason. Show them how to be good decision makers. Show them natural consequences for their actions so that they will be punished by their mistakes and not for them. Unlike yelling and hitting, it will require love, patience, listening, and imagination. I promise, however, that if you do this for them, you will learn so much more than they learn from you. Remember that Statism begins at home.

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Jul 14

Some of My Favorite Marcus Aurelius Quotes

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.”

“The universe is change; life is your perception of it.”

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”

Jun 28

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‘There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.’

‘When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.’

” John Lennon